Posted on 07/14/2016 2:15:46 PM PDT by rdl6989
France’s national holiday turned ugly for revelers Thursday night in the southern city of Nice, as a truck reportedly crashed into a crowd of Bastille Day revelers and fears of terrorism spread.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/vehicle-ploughs-crowd-nice-apparent-attack-several-hurt-214119432.html
Up to 30 feared dead after truck rams into crowd in Nice ‘attack’ - [AFP]
July 14, 2016
Nice (France) (AFP) - Up to 30 people were on Friday feared dead and around 100 injured in an “attack” in the French Riviera resort of Nice after a truck ploughed into a crowd of people leaving a Bastille Day firework display, city officials said.
Witnesses described hearing gunfire, although this was not immediately confirmed by the authorities with images on social media showed casualties lying in the street, some being tended by paramedics.
The incident comes as France remains badly shaken by November 2015 attacks which killed 130 people at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris and nightspots across the city.
Describing it as a “major criminal attack”, Sebastien Humbert, the sub-prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes region, told BFMTV the driver had left “several dozen, perhaps around 30 people dead” and “around a hundred injured”.
Police and ambulances went to the scene and authorities from the local Alpes-Maritimes prefecture urged residents to stay indoors.
An AFP reporter described seeing a white truck driving at high speed onto the famed Promenade des Anglais as people were leaving after the annual Bastille Day celebration display.
“We saw people hit and bits of debris flying around,” he said.
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Saw a report saying 60 dead. When I first heard about the truck crash, I thought maybe it was an accident, but there was some doubt in the back of my mind. Sure enough.
I think it was just fireworks.
Unrelated? fireworks truck burning in Paris;
http://heavy.com/news/2016/07/eiffel-tower-black-smoke-fire-bomb-terrorism-nice-attack/
Jesus.
Sarcasm, hopefully ?
Trying link again;
http://heavy.com/news/2016/07/eiffel-tower-black-smoke-fire-bomb-terrorism-nice-attack/
Pictures from Nice of the truck show the front windshield with many gunshot holes. It would appear that there clearly were gunshots, at the least from the police at the truck driver.
Different link for the Paris fire;
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160715/1042992894/eiffel-tower-smoke.html
BTW, there's still almost a week & a half left of the Tour de France. Lots of crowds lining the streets along the Tour route every day. The Champs-Elysees on July 24th will be packed. Paris better be prepared.
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Not angels - English (named for people that frequented the area originally).
Will John Kerry have the US embassy in France lit up like the colors of the french flag again? will teamobama order our flags to be lowered again?
A truck with gunmen inside shooting just after a fireworks show, when people have been desensitized to the sound of explosions and are milling around in large groups. That's a nasty bit of planning right there.
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