Posted on 12/13/2010 5:48:59 AM PST by nmh
PARIS – PARIS (AP) -- Masked French gendarmes detained a 17-year-old who took a class full of preschoolers hostage Monday, releasing all the children safely after hours of tense negotiations that drew nationwide attention.
"The hostage-taking is over," Jean-Marc Magda, aide to the mayor of the eastern French city of Besancon, told The Associated Press by telephone. All 20 children who had been taken hostage and their teacher were released safely, he said.
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Besancon Mayor Jean-Louis Fousseret said the teen had been treated for depression but had not taken his medication in recent days. The mayor did not confirm reports that the youth had requested a gun to commit suicide.
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The hostage-taker did not threaten the children and allowed them to go to the bathroom throughout the ordeal, Education Minister Luc Chatel said from the scene.
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I also wonder if the pre schoolers were bulling him? He was off his meds and maybe this was his way of getting even. Ah, maybe not. He did allow the terrified pre schoolers to have bathroom breaks while being held hostage.
Hmmm ... why didn't they just tell the bully to use his sword. He didn't need to request a gun. Oh, I forgot, it's YOUR FAULT that he did this. For some off reason the "village" failed again.
dang, who were the perps? Republicans?
Maybe he was Amish!
I become very suspicious when they don’t release the NAME of the person and the ordeal is over. When I see a SWORD was involved .... hmmm ... who likes to use SWORDS as a weapon? It must have been the Amish, AGAIN stirring up trouble. Just has to be!
Those wacky yutes!
As of 0923 est, we still have dozens and dozens of virtually identical copies of the same story on every news service on the web. Not a single one gives even a particle of new information. The “teenage” perp is still unnamed.
Mennonites, yup, those danged Mennonites again. Swooped in on a horse and buggy so fast nobody knew what was happening then made their escape at a fast trot.
My guess is that he is Bosnian muslim??? any takers
The incident took place at the Charles Fourier preschool in Planoise, a neighborhood of housing projects with a big immigrant population on the western edge of Besancon.
Algerian?
ICD?
(islamic Cult Disorder)
test run??? Last week Osama Bin Laden devoted an entire message addressed to the “French people”.
Since it is a first, I wrote for The National about the actual threat that AQ poses on France.
Here is an excerpt:
France has been at an unusually high level of alert over the past few weeks. Multiple terror warnings derived from credible intelligence sources have convinced the French authorities to warn the public of an imminent threat. And, as if that were not enough, Osama bin Laden recently delivered a taped message that was devoted to France.
The French are now
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2010/11/bin_laden_and_france.php
"I can't help but have my suspicions, 'cause I ain't quite as dumb as I seem..."
I'm going to go with a "north African."
Ah, a major clue:
“The incident took place at the Charles Fourier preschool in Planoise, a neighborhood of housing projects with a big immigrant population on the western edge of Besancon.”
Hmmm ... bet ya it was a disenfranchised Moslem.
I purposely call him a Moslem.
Why Do People Say Muslim Now Instead of Moslem?
By Yii-Ann Christine Chen
Ms. Chen is a student at the University of Washington and an intern at HNN.
Is it Muslim or Moslem?
When Baby Boomers were children it was Moslem. The American Heritage Dictionary (1992) noted, “Moslem is the form predominantly preferred in journalism and popular usage. Muslim is preferred by scholars and by English-speaking adherents of Islam.” No more. Now, almost everybody uses Muslim.
According to the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, “Moslem and Muslim are basically two different spellings for the same word.” But the seemingly arbitrary choice of spellings is a sensitive subject for many followers of Islam. Whereas for most English speakers, the two words are synonymous in meaning, the Arabic roots of the two words are very different. A Muslim in Arabic means “one who gives himself to God,” and is by definition, someone who adheres to Islam. By contrast, a Moslem in Arabic means “one who is evil and unjust” when the word is pronounced, as it is in English, Mozlem with a z.
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Journalists switched to Muslim from Moslem in recent years under pressure from Islamic groups. But the use of the word Moslem has not entirely ceased. Established institutions which used the older form of the name have been reluctant to change. The American Moslem Foundation is still the American Moslem Foundation (much as the NAACP is still the NAACP—the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). The journal The Moslem World—published by the Hartford Seminary in Connecticut—is still The Moslem World.
http://hnn.us/articles/524.html
Call them what they are - MOSLEMS!
They are more “liberal” than the Amish.
LOL! Neither would hurt a fly much less endanger a child. They LOVE their children.
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