https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/arti...r-aus.html
https://www.thelocal.fr/20180323/what-we...t-shooting
Beside all the knife attacks I read in Germany, the rapes, some time ago since the last terror attack and shooting / truck drive. Don't know how it is on the daily ground in France. But to consider the impact goes down just because the media report it less or as it seems less people come, doesn't mean the change of society has stopped.
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A mundane Islamist killed three people in southern France.
First he shot at policemen who were doing sports. Then he took several hostages in a supermarket.
Police officers shot the man after several hours.
https://www.thelocal.fr/20180323/what-we...t-shooting
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At least three people were believed to have been killed when a gunman opened fire at a supermarket near Carcassonne in southern France on Friday morning.
The first incident saw a man drive a vehicle at high speed towards a group of four CRS policemen who were jogging in the town of Carcassonne. He had apparently been following the police who were based in Marseille but were on placement in Carcassone.
The man tried to run the police over. He then opened fire, firing five shots and leaving one of the officers injured on the shoulder. Police said the bullet passed 3cm from his heart but the injured man is not believed to be in a critical condition.
After attacking the police the gunman then drove the vehicle 5 km away to the nearby town of Trèbes where he opened fire in the Super U supermarket while shoppers were inside. Two people were killed with the victims believed to have been a member of staff and a customer.
The gunman then took an unknown number of shoppers hostage.
Several witnesses reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he opened fire in the supermarket. The cry which means "God is great" in Arabic has been uttered by jihadists in previous terror attacks.
French prosecutors then quickly announced that the gunman had claimed allegiance to the Islamist extremist terror group Isis and that they were treating the incident as a terror attack.
Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said that just after 2.30pm specialist commando units launched a raid on the supermarket when they heard shots being fired. The gunman was killed in the assault but the officer who had been exchanged for the hostage was left seriously injured after being shot.
What do we know about the gunman
According to witnesses the gunman said he wanted to "avenge Syria" and demanded the release of Salah Abdeslam, the surviving member of the jihadists who carried out the November 2015 Paris attacks and remains in French prison awaiting trial.
Witnesses say he was armed with a knife, a pistol and grenades.
Police are believed to have identified him by the registration plates on the car he used in the attack.
The latest reports claim the gunman was 25 year old French Moroccan.
He is believed to have been known to French intelligence services after coming on their radar for being radicalized. France Info quoted sources who said he was active on social network sites frequented by extremists. He had also spent time in prison in 2016 and is suspected of having travelled to Syria at some point.
Beside all the knife attacks I read in Germany, the rapes, some time ago since the last terror attack and shooting / truck drive. Don't know how it is on the daily ground in France. But to consider the impact goes down just because the media report it less or as it seems less people come, doesn't mean the change of society has stopped.
We will stand tall in the sunshine
With the truth upon our side
And if we have to go alone
We'll go alone with pride
For us, these conflicts can be resolved by appeal to the deeply ingrained higher principle embodied in the law, that individuals have the right (within defined limits) to choose how to live. But this Western notion of individualism and tolerance is by no means a conception in all cultures. - Theodore Dalrymple