Posted on 08/21/2015 11:29:48 AM PDT by jimbo123
A man has been arrested after firing a Kalashnikov rifle on board an Amsterdam-Paris train, according to French media.
Le Parisien reports that a Briton and an American are "seriously" wounded.
A third person, the French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade, was also wounded and is said to have raised the alarm. La Voix du Nord, a newspaper in the Calais region, said a man was arrested on suspicion of firing the weapon on a Thalys train near the northern town of Arras.
Police say that have not ruled out terrorism as a possible motive and Bernard Cazeneuve, the French interior minister, has been summoned to the region. The gunman, said to be of "North African origin," is said to have been "taken down" by a group of US marines onboard the train.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
He was screaming with both hands after he was shot.
Many north africans are muslim.
Will team obama now file charges agaisnt those brave Marines. History tells us he will.
Honestly, I’m glad he only hit 3, and may not have killed any... but how incompetent must one be to have an AK-47, easy targets who have no place to hide (people on a train are as close to “fish in a barrel” as I can imagine), and he has extra magazines for added body count... and he can’t hit more than THREE? Not only is he Evil, he’s utterly useless.
**The gunman, said to be of “North African origin”**
Religion of pieces?
The assailant, who was arrested at the scene, has been identified as a 26-year-old Moroccan, Sliman Hamzi, an official with police union Alliance, said on French television i-Tele.
The marines jumped him when he came out of the bathroom after they heard him loading the AK in there.
Shouldn’t we file suit against Kalashnikov? This has to stop. /s
Another glorious day in the history of the Corps! Reports are that two unarmed Marines heard him loading the AK and attacked him.
“Guy was a Mime.”
Aren’t all the French? I think that’s a required course for them in school.
Now kick the sh** out of him.
When asked to comment, President Obama said, “This was a rogue operator and not an act of terrorism.”
Ooh Rah!
(I hope Obama doesn’t make them undergo sensitivity training for disrespecting a moslem in a public place)
Moroccan gunman known to intelligence services
United States Marines, saving Europe’s Ass as usual.
God Bless each and ever devil dog that wears and has worn that uniform. They run to the sound of gunfire when others are running away.
We don’t care what Obama don’t allow;
Gonna smack those terrorist any old how . . .
To be sung to the tune of . . you know . . .
Ooh Rah!
One of the soldiers was hit by a bullet. The other was stabbed multiple times, Dutch media report.
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2015/08/shooting-incident-in-thalys-amsterdam-to-paris/
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