Many dead as lorry hits crowd in Nice

[Seshmeister]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36800730

Many dead' as lorry hits crowd in Nice




A lorry has struck a crowd during Bastille Day celebrations in the southern French city of Nice, with reports of many dead.

The incident took place on the famous Promenade des Anglais during a firework display, media reports say.

One image on Twitter showed about a dozen people lying on the street, some being tended to.

The local prefecture has urged people in the area to remain indoors, calling the incident "an attack".

Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi said that "a lorry driver appears to have killed dozens of people".

Humbert, the prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes region, told France's BFM TV that "perhaps about 30 people" were dead and 100 injured.

He said the lorry driver had been shot dead.

The mayor and police urged residents to stay indoors.

[jacksmar]

which one of you fuckups changed the title to the thread?

[Seshmeister]

What we know so far

A large truck has ploughed into crowds celebrating Bastille Day in the southern French city of Nice.

The crash, which left 80 people dead including several children and 18 seriously injured, is being treated as a terrorist attack.

The driver of the truck was shot dead by police. They are trying to determine if he had accomplices.

Authorities said the man had been firing on the crowd as he drove, and that the truck was loaded with weapons and grenades.

Witnesses said the driver was “zigzagging” so he could hit as many people as possible. It was reported that he drove into the crowd for 2km at a speed of about 50km/h.

Unconfirmed reports in French media said an ID card belonging to a 31-year-old resident of Nice who had dual French-Tunisian nationality had been found in the truck.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

François Hollande, the French president, described the attack as a “monstrosity” and said soldiers would be deployed to support gendarmes and police, particularly at the country’s borders. He said the attack was “terrorist in nature” and vowed France would always be stronger than the fanatics that want to attack her.

The country’s state of emergency, which was due to expire on 26 July, is to be extended for three months.

The interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, said: “We are at war with terrorists who want to strike us at any cost and who are extremely violent.”

Hollande is on his way to Paris from Avignon to chair an emergency security and defence meeting at 9am on Friday. He will then head to Nice. Cazeneuve is in Nice.

World leaders, including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, have condemned the attack. Donald Trump has postponed the announcement of his running mate.

[Seshmeister]

Is it too cynical to wonder if Trump is delaying his announcement, not out of respect, but to make sure he gets maximum news coverage?

[jacksmar]

you're an asshole...

National 'Day of Rage' Scheduled For July 15th, 2016

[Seshmeister]

Cool - your 'Year of Racist Fuckwit' has got very boring.

[cadaverdog]

Is it too cynical to wonder if Trump is delaying his announcement, not out of respect, but to make sure he gets maximum news coverage?

Maybe he hasn't decided yet or whoever he picked hasn't decided yet. Maybe he'll pick Brett Michaels.

[jacksmar]

Racist Fuckwit

which one of you fuckups changed the title to the thread?

[FORD]

Maybe he hasn't decided yet or whoever he picked hasn't decided yet. Maybe he'll pick Brett Michaels.

Worse than that, he picked failed hate radio talk show host Mike Pence, who also was a teabagging congressman for 12 years, yet never authored a single bill. And now he's a governor with a 40% approval rating in a right wing state (Indiana)

Brett Michaels has at least accomplished something. Granted, the something was cheesy pop-metal bullshit, but at least you can point to his tranny looking album covers and say - "hey, Brett Michaels did that".

Funny thing though is that Pence was supposedly going to withdraw from his own re-election campaign in order to join Drumpf's ticket and by the end of the business day, he had not done so. And this was before the truck incident in France was announced.

So maybe he thought better of it, and decided not to join the Trumpapalooza after all?

[FORD]

Maybe Trump's new running mate choice will be the washed up game show host Chuck Woolery, who apparently copied the Dennis Miller move to turn into a rabid right winger, hoping to find a new audience......

https://twitter.com/chuckwoolery/status/753781497887281152

[DONNIEP]

So are we gonna call this a terrorist attack now or do we need to wait for more time to pass?

[Seshmeister]

Depends how you define terrorist, looks like it was another lone nutjob.

What it isn't is some mass ISIS plot being organized from a volcano by a bunch of SPECTRE style twats around a long table.

Suicidal prick reads shit online and wraps it into a delusional outrage. The religion is needed for the afterlife part of the deal and just one item in a long ingredient list otherwise there would be hundreds of these a day.

[DONNIEP]

Depends how you define terrorist, looks like it was another lone nutjob.

What it isn't is some mass ISIS plot being organized from a volcano by a bunch of SPECTRE style twats around a long table.

Suicidal prick reads shit online and wraps it into a delusional outrage. The religion is needed for the afterlife part of the deal and just one item in a long ingredient list otherwise there would be hundreds of these a day.

I consider bedroom radicals terrorists, whether they be of the Moozlim persuasion or any other religion or wacked out belief system that says go out and kill a buncha people. In this case it appears the terrie is a bedroom jihadi.

[Seshmeister]

I prefer the word murderers and their names should be anonymized.

A lot of these pricks are in it for the infamy.

[Baby's On Fire]

Depends how you define terrorist, looks like it was another lone nutjob.

What it isn't is some mass ISIS plot being organized from a volcano by a bunch of SPECTRE style twats around a long table.

Suicidal prick reads shit online and wraps it into a delusional outrage. The religion is needed for the afterlife part of the deal and just one item in a long ingredient list otherwise there would be hundreds of these a day.

You're stupidity truly boggles the mind.

Yeah...another "lone nu tjob" who just happens to be yet another Muslim piece of shit vermin, with a truckload of automatic weapons and grenades and explosives.....He got all of those by himself.....

Just another lone nut job.....but not another Muslim piece of shit terrorist.

You continually remind me why the Scottish have been the bitches of the British for hundreds of years.

Just mind-boggling stupidity