Posted on 08/22/2015 9:57:31 AM PDT by traumer
Train staff on board the high speed train which was the scene of a suspected Islamic extremist attack yesterday have been accused of barricading themselves in their staffroom and locking the door, leaving passengers to fend for themselves.
The Moroccan terrorist was disarmed and beaten unconscious by US servicemen and a British man after he opened fire on a Paris-bound train with a Kalashnikov.
Now, French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade, who was on board the Thalys train during the attack has slammed train staff who he claims locked themselves in an office away from the attacker and refused to help the trapped passengers. But the head of Thalys, the train company that ran the train on which the attempted attack took place, denied that passengers were abandoned.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
No Marines involved. . .Air Force and Natl Guard guy, and a student visiting.
TY!
I doubt if the train crew could've done much to stop the muzzy, either. It's not like they're armed - even non- lethal defensive weapons are unlikely. I've been on those trains and have seen they way the crews function. The most lethal thing commonly found on board is a cheap butter knife in the commissary coach.
This incident prompts two obvious thoughts:
1. God Bless the United States Marine Corps; and
2. France needs to seriously re-think it's mass transit protocols. This will happen again, probably when the Marines aren't around to lend a hand.
Just makes you well up with pride doesn’t it?
One young man I talked to said, “I was scared and I didn’t want to die but so were my buddies. We did our jobs and we took care of each other.” There is no more powerful force against loyalty, love and training but God.
These three young men were buddies and trained.
It is amazing how many exceptional people there have been through out history. William Dale Nix... nobody ever heard of him but he is equal in thought to those who are household names.
Not everybody wants to be seen all the time. Most probably do not. Like Maj. Dix they want to live out their lives in love and peace with their family and their life’s work but that does not make them any less exceptional than the headline makers. Not to me.
One USAF
One Oregon Army National Guard
One Civilian Friend
Marines are still wonderful people.
Do you have a hole you can crawl back into?
If you do it might be a good idea and you might also consider to quit digging that hole if you want to get out again.
It didn’t take all the crew to retain control of the train. Just the engineer. The crew ran away and hid. They abandoned the passengers.
I was born WAAAAY before 9/11... the assailants forced entry into the cockpits.
That was an outstanding tribute to our troops. I read it quite some time ago.
Thanks for reposting.
My mistake. The early reports I heard said “Marines’’. In any event Americans save the Frenchies again.
Wasn’t it a BELGIAN journaltard professional that put out the Marine BS?
What does the Marine Corps have to do with this incident?
There is a link posted on a thread from last night. Short video.
Old British guy Chris Howard and the French guy who doesn’t want to be named also jumped the vermin sand monkey.
What is truly sickening is that none of the five attempted to f**k this piece of dung really bad.
Perfectly allright. I know most of the initial reports said Marines.
BTW all, how many cabin crew are supposed to have run and were they male or female?
And sandturd evidently did not fire the rifle but instead used his pistol and box-cutter. He had a Kalashnikov type but I never saw a pic of the pistol.
One USAF
One Oregon Army National Guard
One Civilian Friend
We can also surmise that the train company brass absolutely positively forbids the hired hands from being armed or from taking action. You damned well know that the clowns with the big titles and big desks do not give two cents about what happens to the employees or the passengers either, only whether legal action might occur and affect their stock prices and bonuses.
Thalys is a France, Belgium and German national railroads consortium.
According to the report in post 77:
Sadler, the black college kid from Sacramento State, said: “Spencer (USAF) makes first contact, he tackles the guy, Alek (Nat'l Guard) wrestles the gun away from him, and the gunman pulls out a box-cutter and slices Spencer a few times. And the three of us beat him until he was unconscious.”
British passenger Chris Norman later told French television that he helped tie the gunman up after initially hiding under his seat.
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