Posted on 07/27/2016 3:23:40 PM PDT by Olog-hai
An internal probe by French police has concluded that security measures were appropriate in Nice on the night of the deadly Bastille Day truck attack that left 84 people dead and hundreds wounded.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has faced accusations that his office pressured a local official to cover up the lack of national police on July 14, when a local man smashed a truck through holiday crowds in the southern French city. Cazeneuve has denied wrongdoing and is suing for defamation. …
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‘Appropriate’ is euphemism
in French for “we knew and mission accomplished”.
An internal probe by French police has concluded that security measures were appropriate in Nice on the night of the deadly Bastille Day truck attack that left 84 people dead and hundreds wounded.
Whaaa? Please define ‘appropriate” and if you can even handle that one, here is one more : define ‘security measures’.
The French were not willing to stop the Germans, how would one expect them to stop a truck?
The ‘mindset’ prevalent in Germany and France that islamism is primarily a security threat to be dealt with by databases, barricades and policing may be as dangerous as the actual enemy in the long run.
Of there was appropriate security. That's why only 84 died.
Otherwise there would have been over 200 dead. /s
Sounds like a scapegoat will take the fall for a timely terror drill which keeps martial law alive, giving authorities carte blanche.
Obviously they didn’t.
The Maginot Line had appropriate security measures too.
What a pity that “appropriate” and “effective” aren’t synonyms.
Oui. C’est domage.
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