Posted on 08/22/2015 9:46:30 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy
[Translated from LIVE THREAD on Le Figaro website]
14:24 The injured American soldier has surgery
Between 10 o'clock and 12:30 Spencer Stone underwent a succesful operation on his hand. The surgery took plance at the Hand Clinic at Lesquin, a suburb south of Liile. The soldier is now recovering and will later be heard by the police.
15:38 Spencer Stone may leave the hospital by Saturday evening. Spencer Stone, one of the Americans who helped subdue the shooter on the Thalys train between Amsterdam-Paris on Friday should be able to leave the clinic where he underwnet a succesful surgical procedure on Saturda y morning by Saturday evening, the AFP announced.
"He is a smiling giant. He has been so happy with lots of people coming into his room to congratulate him. Even patients who where scheduled for surgery went to meet him, according to a hospital source.
After his release there will be "no communication with the press" since for reasons of the criminal investigation the authorities prefer that there will only be official statements.
(Excerpt) Read more at lefigaro.fr ...
Screw Charlie Hebdo. We’re AMERICANS!
I notice the article says he won't be talking to the press. That's good. Talking to the media could mess up the investigation. Wish we would do that here.
Big smile on this side of the pond... :-D
It was strange. I was acually in Amsterdam yesterday. Could very well have decided to take that train to Paris to visit my brother and sister-in-law, but had to fly back to Stockholm for work related reasons. Did not hear of the terror attack until I came home, and watched the text news on TV. There it was only written that “passengers” subdued the shooter, and of course the fact that a French actor was injured was also mentioned. I thought it was odd - but well done to the French, Belgians, or Dutch for handling it so well.
And then I read on the net (FR of course) - Americans and a Brit!
Suddenly I was not at all surprised any longer.
“He is a smiling giant.” Great quote.
U.S. Marines are like that.
Yes, that’s good.
In the original article there is quite a lot about the perp. Drug smuggling, travels forth and back between muslim countries and western Europe etc etc. I do think the French authorities eventually will come to the conclusion it was a terror attack. Hopefully they will be able to get hold of the local support network.
When I was in Belgium I was talking with the locals.
The locals tend to avoid their large and growing muslim population. If confronted - they meekly try to get away.
But they tell me US Servicemen get into lots of fights with muslims.
Amen that!
I thought he had a neck wound.
He's in the Air Force.
“Fog of War” reporting.
It was said so yesterday, but it probably was one of the other passengers who had a neck wound.
” I do think the French authorities eventually will come to the conclusion it was a terror attack.”
Now if Obama can come to that same conclusion with respect to this and other attacks we have seen here in the U.S., and that this is a “war on Terror” - and appropriately award those soldiers injured with the Purple Heart.
Have they sereved in Vietnam? Just asking? . . . . (Yes, I agree, but I only thought Purple Hearts were handed out to real heroes like JFKerry)
Thanks. Yesterday’s reports indicated he was a Marine, but yesterday’s reports were pretty unorganized.
It was Marines, they were all Marines. You do know that it was the Marines who stormed the beaches of Normandy and defeated the Nazis. They won World War I too. Marines.
Yes, it was a disaster in reporting. Who has time to fact-check? The media has to beat Twitter these days.
I just wanted to give credit where credit is due. I'm sure the USMC would agree.
Are you out of your mind? We’re Americans largely because of the French!
Big smile on this side of the pond as well.
Reports are that Spencer is actually USAF.
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