Posted on 11/15/2015 5:23:14 AM PST by RoosterRedux
PARIS--At least one of the attackers outside France's national soccer stadium had a ticket to the game and attempted to enter the 80,000-person venue, according to a Stade de France security guard who was on duty and French police.
The guard--who asked to be identified only by his first name, Zouheir--said the attacker was discovered wearing an explosives vest when he was frisked at the entrance to the stadium about 15 minutes into the game. France was playing an exhibition against Germany inside.
While attempting to back away from security, Zouheir said, the attacker detonated the vest, which was loaded with explosives and bolts, according to Paris prosecutor Francois Molins. Zouheir, who was stationed by the players' tunnel, said he was briefed on the sequence by the security frisking team at the gate.
A police officer confirmed the sequence, adding that police suspect the attacker aimed to detonate his vest inside the stadium in order to provoke a deadly stampede.
Around three minutes later, a second person also blew himself up outside the stadium. A third suicide attacker detonated explosives at a nearby McDonald's, police said. One civilian died in the attacks, police said.
The account sheds light on why the suicide attacks on Stade de France failed to cause the carnage that occurred at the Bataclan concert hall and restaurants across Paris. More than 120 people died in the string of attacks Friday.
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Is there anyone who does not believe that
in Obama’s pro-Islamic terrorist America,
the alert guard would be thereafter arrested by the DO”J”
and his family audited forever by both
the DNC and the submissive, complicit GOP.
Not after the Clock-med incident.
The article relates what I interpreted news reports to mean
bottom line...... fail
There were 80,000 people in the stadium. An explosion inside would have resulted in many trampling deaths.
I keep telling my kids, on time is late. If this clown was there with the crowds he never would have been stopped.
Let’s thank God for tardiness.
You couldn’t pay me enough to be a security guard responsible for “frisking’ the general public for sports events in Paris.
Sporting events have officially become targets. This has implications for security around the world.
I think they were going after the French president..who was at that game.
“Not after the Clock-med incident.”
Very good point. In the USA the guard would have been obligated to assume that the guy had on a special wearable clock he had just invented and immediately arranged for a visit to the White House and lots of free stuff from Microsoft.
“There were 80,000 people in the stadium. An explosion inside would have resulted in many trampling deaths.”
Not to mention the direct deaths from the projectiles. So thousands, maybe TENS OF THOUSANDS of deaths...possibly more than the World Trade Center.
These gentlemen mean business. It’s time for Europeans to REALIZE THAT, while they still have some chance of prevailing in their upcoming civil wars.
The President of France was in that stadium fresh from a phone call with the Won, talking global warming!
“The President of France was in that stadium fresh from a phone call with the Won, talking global warming!”
True, but sadly most people won’t be able to see your point.
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