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Paris explosion: Massive blast hits French capital as witness claim ‘destruction for blocks’
The Sun UK ^ | 12 Jan 2019 | Gemma Mullin

Posted on 01/12/2019 1:02:48 AM PST by blueplum

Pictures shared on social media show fire engines swarmed the area with reports a number of people have been injured

MULTIPLE people are reported to have been injured after a massive explosion rocked Paris this morning.

Police confirmed a blast had taken place on Saturday morning on Rue de Treviso the 9th district of the French capital.

The cause of the explosion is not yet known, however there are reports that it was due to a gas leak in a bakery.

(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catastrophe; france; paris; yellowvest
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Planet small bomb as cause gas leak.

Yep no one would ever think of that.


21 posted on 01/12/2019 4:28:16 AM PST by riverrunner ( o the public,)
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To: blueplum

A bakery, eh?

I guess someone’s not getting their croissants today....


22 posted on 01/12/2019 4:34:04 AM PST by hoagy62 (America Supreme!)
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To: riverrunner

Yep no one would ever think of that.


But what is the point?

Terrorism is worthless as a weapon if people believe the explosion was a gas leak. Which is why terrorist are quick to claim credit when they do something.

I am not saying it isn’t terrorism, but at this point in time and with the information we have, I lean towards gas leak.


23 posted on 01/12/2019 4:50:31 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: DarthVader

He says he saw a huge fireball . Gas leak my ass


24 posted on 01/12/2019 5:05:39 AM PST by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

So am I but the cause of the leak is the question.


25 posted on 01/12/2019 5:40:55 AM PST by riverrunner ( o the public,)
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To: blueplum

“quite a concussion blast - glass 2 blocks away and car flipped? big bakery”

We had a gas leak/explosion in March of 2009. It was snowing at my house - four miles from the blast - and I literally thought a car had run into my house the BOOM was so loud. I went out and all was well but I could hear sirens in the distance.

https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/downtown-rocked-by-explosion/article_25668956-a630-5d9a-9765-7fddcf7b425a.html


26 posted on 01/12/2019 5:57:34 AM PST by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: hoagy62
I guess someone’s not getting their croissants today....

And if it really is terrorism, that IS the point!

No society is more that three meals from a revolt, and the croissant was invented specifically to celebrate a victory over muslim forces...

27 posted on 01/12/2019 6:08:47 AM PST by null and void (If they don't respect our borders, why would you expect them to respect our National Parks, or us?)
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To: iontheball

“Gov’t false flag? Remember Reichstag.”

I’ve been waiting for another ‘mass’ shooting to compliment the gun-control push around the nation.


28 posted on 01/12/2019 6:41:12 AM PST by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: Cementjungle

Did the bakery refuse to cater to homosexual wedding planners?


29 posted on 01/12/2019 6:48:30 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: BBB333

My old college town newspaper! Never see that on FR.


30 posted on 01/12/2019 8:19:57 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Boycott The NFL! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper)
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To: DarthVader

Yes. It does.


31 posted on 01/12/2019 8:22:08 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

I watched that livestream for a while. I like how he was so certain it was a terrorist attack, and how this was his first time.

It could have been a bomb, but an accidental gas explosion is more likely.


32 posted on 01/12/2019 9:04:48 AM PST by jimtorr
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To: jimtorr
I watched that livestream for a while. I like how he was so certain it was a terrorist attack, and how this was his first time.

It could have been a bomb, but an accidental gas explosion is more likely.

It shows the inexperience of a "citizen journalist" as he calls himself. It is owing to lack of formal journalism training.

Giving him the benefit of the doubt, it was a very emotional and horrific thing for him to have seen.

There was some of the things he said that stuck with me (as close as I can remember them).

- "There is a guy walking in a daze barefoot through broken glass"

- "That woman over there has no clothes one (ripped off her body by the blast). Someone has given her a coat to put around her."

- "There are people covered in a lot of blood."

AND....to his credit, he was very concerned about not invading their privacy at a very horrible moment, like not showing the woman and the injured.

What he got wrong was only his jumping to a conclusion it was terrorist attack I think.

Do you agree with my assessment?

33 posted on 01/12/2019 6:15:53 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom
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To: VietVet
This guy’s descriptions, in breathless, hyper emotional English, do not match what his very own video is showin

The is because he was purposely not showing the victims out of, as he put it, a respect for their privacy.

34 posted on 01/12/2019 6:16:58 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom
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To: gunsequalfreedom

Good points. I was thinking of CNN types and how they hype everything.


35 posted on 01/12/2019 7:26:56 PM PST by jimtorr
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To: VietVet; All

just an update - the reason the streamer saw the emerg. vehicles there was there were already firefighters on site checking out reports of a gas leak, during which there was the blast. Two firefighters deceased in the blast, a few more injured. Here’s the follow-on:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6584109/Huge-explosion-rocks-Paris-street-gas-leak-bakery.html


36 posted on 01/12/2019 10:34:24 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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