Posted on 11/14/2015 8:06:49 AM PST by PghBaldy
AT LEAST five people have died and seven have been injured after a high-speed train derailed near the French City of Strasbourg, local media has reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
You’d thnk that the French authorities would be a little more cautious about making a blanket-statement like that. A more prudent statement would be, “we’re investigating all possible causes” and leave it at that. But, No, the Media need to have their predjudices stroked at a time like this.
Not to self: Cancel tourist trip to Paris, France and rail connections elsewhere.
Bavarian cops over the past five days....arrested some guy crossing the border who had AK47s, grenades and such in the car.
It should be noted about two hours ago via German news....this guy arrested in Bavaria....had Paris set for his GPS.
“excessive speed”.
Horizontally or vertically?
Yeah, ol’ Shep is sure 9/11 had nothing to do with terrorists, either, I suppose.
don’t have to look to Afghanistan for AK-47s. Every Warsaw Pact country had literally tons of them. Don’t recall any being repatriated to USSR/Russia after the fall.
Moslem sectors of the Balkans had more than enough to feed the European blackmarket.
“Mechanical issue or sabotage?”......
What are the odds ISIS had something to do with that one as well?
Unusual coincidence, but if the explosion was actually on the train, more likely it was the same French engineering that has made Renault, Peugeot and Citroën such popular brands in the US than ISIS. They might still claim responsibility, of course.
Lucky they have such strict gun laws. You know gun show loophole closures and background checks and all. That should be more than enough to stop the junior varsity.
Am I bad for having some glee seeing this pufter get older and older looking than he should over the last few years? I mean, holy crap, look at those grays!
Okie dokie
Like the one in Philly. And the train engineer had black out memory hole. Nothing came off it how many months later?
Obama & Traitor...one in the same!!!
Five people have been killed as a train derailed and caught fire in Eckwersheim near Strasbourg in France. Rescue teams are working at the site.
A high-speed TGV train derailed in Eckwersheim in the Bas-Rhin department of Alsace in northeastern France mid-afternoon on Saturday.
Local officials told AFP that five people died in the accident, which was apparently caused by “excessive speed.”
Local media reports there are injured, but the numbers aren’t clear yet. Several people have been airlifted from the scene on a helicopter, RTL reports.
There has been no official confirmation on the casualties. A source close to the investigation told AFP that 60 technicians were on board the train when the accident happened.
The SNCF state service has confirmed that the accident occurred, but didn’t provide further details, according to the paper.
The accident happened on a new high-speed line between Paris and Strasbourg, which hadn’t been used before.
The train derailed while on a bridge and the cars fell into the Marne-Rhine canal, according to witness reports. Photos from the scene show smoke coming from the carriages.
There have been no terror-related reports.
https://www.rt.com/news/322054-tgv-train-derails-eckwersheim/
Well... news people are not known for being smart...
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They are Big Government’s Flying Monkeys. They spread the propaganda of their masters.
“Terrorism has been ruled out” ping.
There must be a connection....
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