France Attacked Again
Posted by Michelle Moquin on July 15th, 2016
I came home from a wonderful day with family visiting the newly renovated MOMA in San Francisco, only to hear about the atrocity in France, this time Nice, on their much celebrated Bastille Day.
This time the attacker, who has now been identified, drove a truck filled with ammunition, shot out, and ran people over for more than a mile, killing 84 and injuring many people, a great deal in critical condition. At least 50 children are hospitalized. The driver, the attacker, was eventually killed by police.
Like everyone, I am sad and angry this morning. Unfortunately this seems to be a consistent feeling with so many horrific occurrences that have been continually happening.
Here’s the write from the Huff Po:
Truck Barreled, Zigzagged Into Nice Crowd, Video Shows
A witness said the driver appeared to zigzag to “kill as many as possible.”
Shocking video footage shows a large white truck blasting into a crowd gathered at a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, on Thursday.
At least 84 people were viciously killed and dozens injured and traumatized in what officials called “a terrorist attack” as the vehicle, loaded with guns and grenades, zigzagged with its headlights off to “kill as many as possible,” according to one witness.
“Nobody in the way stood a chance,” Pierre Roux told the New York Times, recalling that there was no honking as the truck plowed through the terrified crowd.
The footage below appears to show frantic officials trying to get the truck to stop before it speeds ahead toward the crowded street.
Warning: The video below contains disturbing footage. (Click here to see video)
Law enforcement officers later shot the driver of the truck to death.
Eyewitnesses described carnage at the scene, bodies strewn along the road, and devastated, stunned relatives. Thousands were gathered to watch a Bastille Day fireworks display, an annual tradition.
President Barack Obama on Thursday condemned the attack, offering “any assistance” to the French needed to “bring those responsible to justice.”
“We stand in solidarity and partnership with France, our oldest ally, as they respond to and recover from this attack,” Obama said in a statement.
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July 15th, 2016 at 10:05 am
Michelle, it was horrible. The crazy person used his truck as a murdering battering ram.
July 15th, 2016 at 10:23 am
The world has gone mad when grown men seek to murder the innocent without regard to sex or age. Children were run over as if they were some lifeless object in the road.
July 15th, 2016 at 10:24 am
Why do we tolerate these monster in our midst?
July 15th, 2016 at 10:25 am
I saw people falling and other running on top of them. The panic was so thick you could smell it.
July 15th, 2016 at 10:26 am
Why would a 31 year old man commit to murdering innocents, men, women, and children indiscriminately?
July 15th, 2016 at 10:27 am
When do we start to round up this muslim dirt and deporting them?
July 15th, 2016 at 10:28 am
It is that fucked up religion of theirs. Islam is just too violent. It allows their worshippers to harm without remorse.
July 15th, 2016 at 10:31 am
Je dis que nous devons expulser tous les Arabes croyants islamiques en France.
July 15th, 2016 at 2:18 pm
Thank you Izzy, appreciate you responding to my request.
Beth it’s a tough crowd you can bet on it, I caught your #2 comment also, years ago I’d carry around things people would say to me here then I realized the worst of them usually commented as ‘anonymous’ and didn’t deserve my attention and those who leave names, well, they don’t know me offline so I listen and apply what I feel is truthful and then constructive for my growth as a person, if it doesn’t fall into that category then it gets filtered right on out…
Good on you for jumping into the heat of things, I admire that.
And now I’m going to read today’s write.
Luv, Zen Lill
July 15th, 2016 at 2:29 pm
I heard this on the news, it’s so sad and disturbing, my thoughts and prayers are with our French friends there, and Ma Qin, an off and on regular here, if you’re out there I hope you and yours are okay.
Luv, ZL
July 16th, 2016 at 7:19 am
Zen Lill, I had decided to not commit using my real name this time. As you mentioned @9 I got so much anger and negative opinion for being a supporter of “the fictional Zen Lill.”
So did many of our “French Girlz of the Zen Lill Chapter.” When Michelle restarted her blog, we restarted our chapter, but this time we decided to do it in secret. We would comment but not with our real names.
For me reading what you said @9 changed my mind I will return to using my name and for those who do not wish to believe that you actually exist, I say in my best american way – “baise mon pote et cela vaut pour le cheval tu montes dans le.”
Thank you for your sympathies Zen Lill. It is a very trying time here in France and especially in Nice. Many have been trying to get as much information about the dead and injured as we can. Here everyone seems to know some dead or injured.
Most of the sentiment is running along the lines of Paul@8 who is asking or the deportation of all islamic believing arabs. I wouldn’t go that far, but I think we should stop accepting the men’s domination of their women. Burkas should be outlawed in France unless the men will wear them along side of their women.
It is absurd to believe that the females want to wear that ridiculous garment. They live in an environment of fear and intimidation from the males so of course the claim they wish to wear them.
France should say that from now on if they wish to observe that part of islam then leave France and do it.
Thank you Zen Lill again for thinking of France and me in this time of our need. We the Girlz of the Zen Lill Chapter love you.
July 16th, 2016 at 7:33 am
Here in Turkey many women wanted the coup to succeed because President Erdogan is attempt to give islam a more prominent role in national government. He is doing that to become a dictator for life.
As it is he has almost eliminated the any second party system. He has done on a national level what I read your that republican party has done on a state level. Like the american republican who has basically used voter suppression, and gerrymandering to insure their party wins most of the electoral seats of government, so has Erdogan used his police power to arrest, intimidate, and destroy any opposing parties to his rule.
We the women of Turkey don’t know what the failed military coup would have brought us, but since it was for a more secular government, it could not be worse than having to live under sharia canonical law.
July 16th, 2016 at 7:39 am
Canan#12, you lie and when you are caught Allah will decide your punishment. Death will not come so easily to you or your family.
July 16th, 2016 at 7:41 am
Canan#12, there will be no escape to America or the United Kingdom. All the airports have been sealed and no flights leaving to those destinations can depart.
July 16th, 2016 at 7:45 am
Canan#12, please be careful the men are intoxicated with the power islam gives them over us. They will support this dictator without hesitation.
So many young men are in the streets proclaiming their support for islam. We as women in Turkey hoping for a more secular government that will allow us to live with choices for our lives are doomed.
Please be careful, many families are preparing for honor killings. Do not trust a call from even your mother to return home. She will be the first to plunge the knife in your back.
July 16th, 2016 at 7:51 am
Canan#12 not all men are against women having the right to choose who they marry. But for now you will have to be patient. Erdogan is using this as an opportunity to finish what he started 10 years ago which is to eliminate any part of government opposed to his continued rule.
My father and many other members of the Council of State have been arrested. They will be murdered secretly. They are using the name of cleric Fethullah Gulen in the US as an excuse to purge the judicary, military, education and media aimed at preventing his becoming a dictator for life.
July 16th, 2016 at 8:09 am
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is an evil man. He is using the failed uprising to demand the extradition of cleric Fethullah Gulen.
I congratulate President Obama on his cunning. While he has publicly supported Erdogan, as he should any democratically elected leader of a country, he is steadfastly demanding that before Cleric Gulen is to be extradited back to Turkey(and to certain death) the Turkish PM provide some evidence of his wrong doing.
Erdogan is trying to bluff the US into extraditing Gulen by stating that any country that stands with Gulen was at a state of “war” with Turkey.
Obama doesn’t by wolf tickets. Kerry who spoke late Friday to his Turkish opposite number Mevlut Cavusoglu by telephone, said: “We haven’t received any request with respect to Mr Gulen.
Obama is requesting that Turkey present the US with any legitimate evidence against Cleric Gulen that withstands scrutiny and the United States will accept that and look at it and make judgments about it appropriately.
That is Obama’s tactful reply to Erdogan, meaning I don’t give a shit about your threat of “war.” If you want the US to extradite anyone from our borders, you had better be prepared to abide by our legal standards to achieve that extradition.
July 16th, 2016 at 8:14 am
magine starting out on a hike or driving through your favorite national forest, and this is your view: swaths of trees that have been clearcut, hordes of trucks flying along back roads and fracking rigs scattered across the landscape.
Because our public lands are currently open to fracking, this dirty and dangerous image could become more common for visitors to our national forests and wilderness areas.
As a Colorado native, I am lucky to have the awe-inspiring Rocky Mountains and many areas of public land right in my backyard. Just the other weekend, I went hiking in Arapahoe National Forest. I cannot imagine going out and seeing a clearing with a huge fracking well pad, instead of these beautiful trees. Our national forests and public lands are too precious to frack.
But fracking is already happening in national forests and public lands across the country — from Pennsylvania’s Allegheny National Forest to the border of Glacier National Park; from illegal fracking in the Florida Everglades to George Washington National Forest in Virginia (which was recently approved for fracking).
Thanks to the incredible opposition to fracking that has grown across the country, U.S. Representative Mark Pocan (WI-2) and co-sponsor Jan Schakowsky (IL-9) introduced a bill to ban fracking on all public lands. This bill is the strongest piece of federal legislation against fracking to be introduced to date.
While Food & Water Watch members have already made it clear that fracking should be banned on our public lands (along with allies, we submitted more than 650,000 comments from people like you against the Obama administration’s proposed rules for fracking on public lands), the oil and gas industry is pushing back. They will do everything they can to kill this bill so they can keep fracking our public lands.
That’s why we need to make sure that this bill has an impressive list of co-sponsors and supporters in Congress. Ask your representative to co-sponsor this bill to protect our public lands from fracking.
I want to be able to enjoy our parks and forests for years to come, and I want to make sure there will be protected wilderness for future generations to experience. Join me in standing up to protect our public lands from fracking today.
Thanks for taking action,
Caitlin Seeley George
Online Organizer
Food & Water Watch
act(at)fwwatch(dot)org
July 16th, 2016 at 8:22 am
Here is a play by play of the attack. I don’t understand why the police didn’t shoot accurately and kill the driver before he got to the people.
I bless the Motorcyclist that attempted to open the door of the lorry before he fell under it wheels.
http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-36799172
There are several others there also.