Posted on 03/24/2017 8:56:24 PM PDT by Prospero
I’ve been to Lille a few times as the Eurostar Chunnel Train stops there on the way from London to Brussels. Never appeared to be a bad place. This is apparently a drug related gang issue.
Per the SUN:
DRIVE-BY HORROR Terror in Lille as hooded ‘gangster’ shoots three people outside Metro station ‘in revenge attack’
At least three people were injured in the attack including a 14-year-old boy
Although anti-terrorist police were called to the scene, there were later reports the shooting was a ‘revenge attack’.
“A car pulled up outside the station and targeted the three youths,” said a police source.
“It appears this was a settling of scores.”
Police sources say a car pulled up outside the station and targeted the three youths.
The shooting was thought to be related to the drugs trade in Lille, and was carried out by ‘a hooded man’, said the police source.
Strict gun control in Europe is working almost as well as it does in the Mosel City of Chicago.
Meant Model City of Chicago.
I'm stealing that phrase. :)
How many white native French are involved in violent drug gangs?
Appreciated the background. It did sound like they might have mistaken Lille for Chicago... (LOL)
I should have remembered, Paris still takes more days off than Congress, it’s the law.
As Barry Farber loves to remind us, “never believe anything until it’s officially denied.”
In Chicago, that's called "Tuesday".
Thanks.
Can you imagine the Daly machine putting Chicago on lock down every time an “event” like this one happened? “Sheltering in Place” works in Boston, but...
“”Police have dismissed terrorism as a motive, with local radio suggesting the attack may be drug crime-related.”
It’s never terrorism until they say. And they never say. “
I believe the standard operating procedure for law enforcement today is to eliminate terrorism as a motive before the first officer arrives on the scene.
Probably a crazed Lutheran.
When something happens in the world, I always hit twitter. It can give you eyewitness accounts pretty quickly (as you sift through the crap). Best is to search for the name of the place in whatever language seems most appropriate.
Leni
These days, we have to comb through many sources, throughout the world, to get anything like even the illusion of comprehensive news and information.
Cheers.
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