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A quick look at the RNC in Cleveland this week from a threat assessment PoV
Links graciously provided by Gates of Vienna.
First, claims of hacked emails detailing plans by Marxist groups to cause trouble in Cleveland.
[This post originally appeared at Fellowship of the Minds on July 5. The information imparted takes on added significance in the wake of the widely-reported targeting of Dallas police officers on July 7 by black assailant Micah Xavier Johnson, who “‘said he was upset about the recent police shootings’” and ‘”at white people,’” according to Dallas Police Chief David Brown. ‘”He said he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.’” -Ed.]
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch is coordinating with Democratic activists to so disrupt the upcoming Republican and Democratic National Conventions that martial law will be declared.
That’s the stunning discovery revealed in a series of direct messages between three activists.
On Friday, June 10, 2016, someone hacked into the Twitter account of #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) leader and former Baltimore mayoral candidate DeRay McKesson. McKesson later confirmed the hack to The Baltimore Sun.
On June 11, 2016, a Twitterer who calls himself The Saint (@TheSaintNegro) tweeted a direct-message conversation on June 10 between KcKesson and another BLM leader Johnetta Elzie (Netta), in which the two discussed talking with Attorney General Loretta Lynch about plans to bring on martial law by causing chaos at the upcoming Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, PA, so as to keep Obama in office.
The above may or may not be true, and if true, may or may not come to pass. But it seems worth looking into and considering.
And then from Liberty Unyielding:
The DOJ factor: Is Cleveland walking into a buzz-saw?
More than two weeks ago – before the massacre of police in Dallas – Breitbart Texas reported a warning from the president of the Cleveland police union, Steve Loomis. Cops and convention-goers, said Loomis, will be “sitting ducks” at the Republican National Convention, which begins on 18 July, a week from Monday, at Quicken Loans Arena.
Loomis and the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association were worried that the city leadership hasn’t been taking the acknowledged threat of large scale rioting seriously.
The police union head charges that the mayor of Cleveland “just does not get it.” He adds that “Command staff has arrogantly dismissed concerns of officials from FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency).”
The hope of augmentation from police departments across the country hasn’t materialized, in spite of a $50 million special-event grant from the federal government to cover things like deployment expenses.
Problems include the fact that riot gear for the police force was ordered very late – and apparently, when Lana Shadwick reported on 22 June, had still not arrived in Cleveland. (Philadelphia’s police, by contrast, have had their riot gear for the Democratic convention for seven months. That allows them to train with it and adjust it for fit and functionality.)
It appears there was another slaughter of policemen in the US.
There will be and is a ton of news on this and many links in the comments. But it deserves a post on its own.
3 officers dead after shooting near BRPD HQ
BATON ROUGE – Two Baton Rouge Police officers and a East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office deputy are dead following a Sunday morning shooting on Airline Highway.
Another three officers have been reported wounded, but the extent of those injuries has yet to be made available.
Authorities have confirmed that one suspect is dead while two others remain at large. Law enforcement encouraged any citizens who see anything suspicious to contact police as soon as possible. Residents were encouraged to stay indoors until the remaining suspects are in custody. Police said the public should keep an eye out for suspicious subjects in black or camouflage clothing and notify authorities immediately.
Police detained two suspects in Addis and transported them back to the BRPD Violent Crimes Unit. Sources said the subjects headed to the Port Allen Walmart to change out of all black clothing before they were taken into custody. They’re being questioned in relation to the deadly shooting.
(Last I heard, 7 officers were shot and 3 killed)
Turkey and media manipulations: Links 1 on July 17 – 2016
News is flooding in about Turkey of course. Less so about France as we all knew what would happen before the truck stopped. Stuffed animals, flowers and the CBC would tell us all that the Muslims are the real victims.
Nuremberg trials V2.0 promise to be busy and long.
But Turkey has a lot more uncertainty.
Here is a few articles from the 90s and early 00s which are fascinating in context.
First, Erdogan goes to prison for reading a poem about how Islam is what it is. He was jailed for inciting animosity between religions.
Former Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor Recep Tayyip Erdogan has entered prison to serve his four-month prison sentence. A convoy of 2,000 vehicles accompanied Erdogan to the prison HAKAN ASLANELI Istanbul – Turkish Daily News Istanbul’s former Islamist Mayor Recep Tayyip Erdogan has gone to prison to serve a conviction for “inciting hatred based on religious differences” in a speech he made in Siirt nearly a year and a half ago. Although he twice had the sentence converted into a monetary fine
- Former Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor Recep Tayyip Erdogan has entered prison to serve his four-month prison sentence. A convoy of 2,000 vehicles accompanied Erdogan to the prison
[…]
The public prosecutor charged Erdogan with “inciting hatred based on religious differences” at a political rally in Siirt. During his speech, Erdogan read a poem by nationalist ideologist Ziya Gokalp, in which he said:
“Our minarets are our bayonets, Our domes are our helmets, Our mosques are our barracks. We will put a final end to ethnic segregation. No one can ever intimidate us.
“If the skies and the ground were to open against us. If floods and volcanoes were to burst, We will not turn from our mission. My reference is Islam. If I am not able to speak of this, What is the use of living?”
Banned for life
Under the court ruling, Erdogan will be banned from public life forever and will not be able to take part in politics. Friends of Erdogan, who is interested in poetry, say he will write a book of poems while in prison.
It seems the hate speech charges didn’t do much good in Turkey either.
Here is a BBC article from 2002 on Erdogan. A little more background.
Between the article above and the jail time for poems, he reminds me of a 20th century politician from Austria more and more.
Today there are numerous stories about Erdogan flashing the Ikhwan sign around. The 4 finger salute that indicates Muslim Brotherhood affiliation. An explanation of it is here.
There have been demonstrations by Al-Qaeda/Muslim Brotherhood people here at Parliament hill in fact using that symbol in a fake display of fraternity with Canadians who support democracy.
This is from Aug. 24 2013
1, Here is an interesting story in a way. This article about a current hostage situation and seizure of a police station in Armenia, manages to utterly neglect to mention that the conflict in fact “has its roots” in Christian Vs. Muslim hostilities.
I suppose if the public started to get a sense of how many of the world’s violent conflicts are in fact because of Islamic aggression, people might start not liking Islam. And we can’t have that. For some reason.
2. Pamela Geller describes to Ezra how Facebook selectively enforces its anti-free speech laws against classical liberals and bans criticism of Islam or exposure of Islamic Jew-hatred, while allowing Islamic antisemitism in its original context.
3. ACLU publishes a paper on Trump’s policies.
(Read it slowly. It is a tranche of misinformation and outright lies from the first page. I have not made it to the end and would like to hear from anyone who has, but this is a condemnation of the ACLU, not of Donald Trump. One example is the claim that Trump’s proposed ban on a certain immigration is a violation of the constitution. That would mean that the US constitution applies to foreign nationals for one thing, so is wrong out of the gate. But it isn’t a violation even the way they imply it is. And thats just at first glance.)
4. ISIS releases propaganda film showing burning Big Ben as they warn the West ‘we are here’
The hated terror group published the horrifying film, calling on European jihadis to “fill your cars with gas”, weeks before gunman Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel used a lorry to mow day Bastille Day crowds in France.
In the propaganda clip the Islamist fanatics suggest various methods for carrying out terror attacks in Britain, Europe, the US and Australia alongside detailed descriptions of the carnage they could cause.
(This might be a good time to avoid taxis for a short while. Try a bike, bus or friend or your own car. Yes, the bus may well be driven by a Muslim on jihad but you have a better chance of surviving in that than in a cab.)
5. A boy of THREE is quizzed by police for racism as number of children accused of hate crimes soars
(What makes this propaganda interesting is how they specify one “hate crime” where a child was told not to sit next to Jews, but the ones which are obviously done by Muslims who wield knives and threaten all other religions are not specified as being done by Muslims. In fact the description of the crimes leads one to suspect that all of them where done by Muslims. But that is not in the article, leaving the impression that white indigenous British people are racist bastards. One thing is certain. If they are not now, this kind of writing will make them so)
Thank you Richard, Wrath of Khan, Yucki, Oz-Rita, Jeremy P., Pym Purnell and many more. Keep it coming please. The information age means more, and more controlled information. not better. We depend on each other to de-spin and inform.
German State TV runs afoul of the Stasi censors
An original translation by Nash Montana, and video by Egri Nok with much thanks!
From this German language version of RT’s website.
Amadeu Foundation demands deletion of ZDF satire piece about the foundation’s censorship madness on the internet
An unmasking of unprecedented proportion is plaguing the Amadeu Antonio Foundation of the ex-Stasi employer Anetta Kahane. She has just recently been crowned as the supreme watchdog in relation to “hate speech on the internet” by Heiko Maas, Germany’s Minister of Justice. And because of a ZDF piece which satirizes this, the Foundation has now activated the Board of Censors (Fernsehrat) to have the satire piece removed from its mediatheque.
When one engages anti-German opinion extremists such as the Amadeu Antonio Foundation as consultants against “hate speech on the internet”, this is the same making the fox guard the henhouse. Insofar as it would be reasonable to question the judgment of Heiko Maas at the time of his decision, when he made Anetta Kahane — who once earned her bread as the STASI Informant “Victoria” — and her Amadeu Antonio Foundation the top consultant in his “task force against Hate speech on the internet”.
On one hand the political milieu from which Kahane stems is famous for launching massive hate campaigns against those that dare to think differently and whose face they just don’t like at the moment, and on the other hand they demand as the self appointed thought police full and complete censorship for the slightest of infractions. The fervor with which the thought police find racism, sexism, anti-Semitism and whatever else they think they find, reminds one astonishingly of symptoms of persecution paranoia.
Just how deep that paranoia is truly anchored shows itself in how the “anti-German milieu” of the radical Left handles criticism about their own modus operandi. Even when the criticism comes along in obvious humorous ways, the professional snitches smell “hate speech”, which then has to immediately be deleted. And now all will be approved under the support of the Minister of Justice in German-speaking social media.
What this means in practical terms is something the ZDF moderator Achim Winter is currently experiencing first-hand. In a humorous satirical man-in-the-street segment, the “Hallo Deutschland” reporter made a little bit of fun of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation and hinted, between the lines, at possible problems that could be created due to their censorship mania.
He also makes jokes about one or the other quirk of the new-left new-speakers. What is one even allowed to say anymore in Germany? Apparently, not very much. Because what follows his report is an unprecedented unmasking of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation as well as of the mainstream media such as Die Zeit or Tagesspiegel.
In a letter to the ZDF, the Foundation first described Winter’s segment as “disturbing”. In familiar victim mentality, they whine about how “deeply affected” they are. And they also bring out the big cannons: the hate-speech experts immediately went to the Board of Censors as well as to the ZDF directors.
One could of course categorize the segment as satire, but it could also be understood as something completely different. The foundation is made the “butt of the joke”, as was Kahane’s chairman Andreas Zick. And something like that apparently comes close to an aggravated insult to Her Majesty itself. Therefore the demand: The satire piece from Achim Winter has to be deleted from the mediatheque! A measure which just recently was also taken in the Böhmermann-Erdogan debacle [the infamous satirical goat-molesting poem].
No less absurd is the demand for censorship of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation against a harmless fun piece is the journalistic support that Tilman Steffen in Die Zeit and by way of second publication presented in the Tagesspiegel. Over entire paragraphs the article protocols the twitter activity of Achim Winter and gets put in the kind of context that makes the argumentation of Kahane and Zick seem plausible. What could be proven: It’s exactly that kind of thought-policing that Winter had made fun of in his piece and had shown as being problematic, that then immediately has been applied in reaction to his piece against his person. And just so that everybody really gets what the exact accusation is, the article about Achim Winter was published under the tag “Right-wing extremism”.
It can be largely predicted how this is going to go from now on: The probability is very high that in the coming days a finely tuned hate campaign against Winter will be launched, during which, among other things, tweets will be unearthed and according to the contact co-guilt principle, the social context of the moderator will be put in the desired spotlight. All that with the maximum goal to chase Winter out of his reporter’s job. The list of those who have been robbed of their basis of existence through the ideological mania of self-appointed Leftists is long. And the internet is a beloved weapon of choice. And so we can clearly see in the case of Achim Winter, what the real problem is in Germany: The most dangerous “hate speakers” are currently advising the Federal Ministry of Justice.
Interview with Paul Sutliff on infiltration of the US government by the Muslim Brotherhood
This is part I of a II part interview. The second part should be available in the next few hours short of a “Truck attack” or a coup.
Weak kneed and whiny
An original translation by Nash Montana with much thanks.
From this German website:
How pathetic. A Tunisian mows down 84 happy and innocent people celebrating Bastille day, injures dozens heavily, women and children are laying on the street bloodied – and the only reaction that immediately follows is the same old threadbare phrases just like after Toulouse and Brussels, Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan.
One knows them by heart. Consternation, bewilderment, shock, pre-cut empathy and feigned grief, solidarity and partnership and thoughts and prayers and so on and on and on. Flowers and stuffed animals in front of the embassies, spotlights in the national colors of the at the moment affected country’s buildings, Facebook profile pictures with “je suis something” – messages, the rituals are as practiced as they are helpless.
Where is the righteous anger, the determined and absolute call to the terrorists followed by actions, instead of the ever same phrases and hang-in-there rallying calls? “We strongly stand on France’s side”, sounds exactly like the phrase machine from the chancellor, regardless of whether she resides in Berlin or in Ulan Bator.
The return to normalcy is shorter every time
The reactions are all a little short of everything, when the frequently invoked oldest ally gets hit in the core. And whether they are responsible or not, the ‘islamic state’ is rolling on the floor laughing over the West’s whiny, weak kneed and spineless reactions. There is not much to fear of such enemies.
This was a “attack on our values”, blathers the President of Germany, Gauck and his US-counterpart Obama in synchrony. No, it was not. It was an attack on France and the french, on Europe and the European people, as well as on our country and our nation [Writer is German, so he speaks of Germany]
It may be that these attacks in one or the other case really have nothing to do with islam. But they have to do with the Arabic-North African conquest. We won’t let our freedom and our lifestyle be taken from us? But we already have let it be taken. France just prolonged the state of emergency. The return to normalcy gets shorter and shorter, because the attacks come ever closer and in ever faster succession.
Symbolic actions
Whoever wantonly declares his country as a welcome paradise for hundreds of thousands or even millions of angry young men from other cultures, of which not just a few hate us as the enemy and despise us, will in accompaniment receive the development of a police state while still not being able to protect themselves from terrorism. When the festivities in the capitol city are protected with military security, then the attacks will just take place on the unprotected belly of the country.
All of this is of course not spoken about by the politicians and the media and their pseudo scientific accomplices, which at this time are once again are bloviating and beating around the bush on all channels. If they did, they would have to admit that they committed deadly mistakes and covered them up and because of that are indirectly co-responsible for the attacks.
Only when one recognizes errors can they be corrected. Only once one knows where the enemy stands, can then correctly be lead on the fight against terror, minus all the cheap and ineffective phrases and symbolic actions. Not somewhere in the middle East but in our own country. Then we could at least try to dry out the hostile parallel societies, the hate preaching mosques and conspirators, the violent- and terror inclined subcultures and infrastructures.
What else has to happen?
Then we can begin to reject and denaturalize those immigrants that come to our countries and hate and fight against our way of life, we can close and control our borders and slam the door in the face of those who try to intrude with hostile intentions. For the protection and the safety of our own citizens, but also for those immigrants who are really peaceful and want to assimilate.
What else has to happen until very necessary measures are taken?
Trump’s VP pick supports ban on Islamic immigration
Bataclan: the victims have been tortured and mutilated? (Update: parliamentary report)
An original translation by Ava Lon
From this excellent French language website:
07/14/2016
Mr. B. N., peace keeper. […]
We then left for the Bataclan.
Mr. O. B. When we were at the corner of the passage Saint-Pierre Amelot, while people in the Bataclan suffered horrific things, we have been very lucky.
We went back there, and the owner of the tile shop behind which we were sheltered explained that his shop was an old bank whose windows were shielded.
This protected us – I had a ballistic shield without additional plates. At the corner, we heard people moaning, but we could not go help them because we did not have the proper equipment.
Justice Georges Fenech. For the information of the Commission of Inquiry, Mr P. T., can you tell us how you learned that there had been acts of barbarism within the Bataclan: beheadings, evisceration, enucleation …? (castration)
Mr. T. P. After the police stormed the building, we were with colleagues at the passage Saint-Pierre Amelot when I saw a crying investigator who went out to throw up. He told us what he had seen. I did not know this colleague, but he was so shocked that sharing came naturally.
Alain Marsaud. Acts of torture happened on the second floor?
Mr. T. P. I think so, because I entered at the ground floor where there was no such thing, only people hit by bullets.
Alain Marsaud. To your knowledge, they were undoubtedly three? Is there not a chance for a fourth one to have escaped?
Mr. T. P. It is certain that they were at least three, but they were maybe four. The radio was broadcasting calls to the police emergency number, 17: we heard of three or four people.
Alain Marsaud. Is it impossible a fourth person was able to escape by being among the wounded that were evacuated?
Mr. T. P. It’s not impossible. That’s why my colleagues have carried out summary pat downs of all victims, even injured, coming out through the main entrance.
Mr. S. L. We were doing a systematic summary pat downs, at least at the plexus, the base of the torso and legs.
Alain Marsaud. A fourth terrorist could have hurt himself or fled among the wounded?
Mr. T. P. Among the injured, I don’t think so.
Alain Marsaud. We only found three weapons of war.
Mr. S. L. This is part of the investigation. For our part, we don’t know anything about it.
Justice Georges Fenech. Gentlemen, thank you very much for delivering this very important testimony. The inquiry commission commands your courage and intervention.
Hearing in camera, of the night BAC officials [Brigade Anti-criminalité= Anti Crime Brigade] from the Val-de-Marne that intervened November 13, 2015: MTP, corporal, MLS, sergeant, MOB, brigadier, MNB, peacekeeper, MAD, peacekeeper, and MPT, peace keeper
Hearing in camera, on the Monday, March 21, 2016
Mr. T. P. Commissioner N entered with his driver. Then we could hear him shooting and there was an explosion. Once the targeted individual is neutralized, the first rounds are being directed at us at the side Saint Pierre Amelot. During the ten minutes that the terrorist is shooting at us, we no longer hear any other shots inside.
Justice Georges Fenech. Because the other is dead.
Mr. T. P. One of them was neutralized. The other is upstairs trying to … I tend to think that as long as I’m being shot at, it does not kill anyone else.
Pierre Lellouche. What do you mean by “trying to …”?
Justice Georges Fenech. I think some things have never been said. I think maybe we could, at this stage, clear things up.
Mr. T. P. Bodies have not been presented to families because there have been people who were beheaded there, people with their throats cut, people who have been eviscerated. There are women who have been stabbed in the genitals.
Justice Georges Fenech. All this was apparently videotaped for ISIS!
Mr. T. P. I think so. That’s what the victims have said.
The Rapporteur. These acts were committed by the two survivors. Do you know if you have hurt the one you were shooting at in St. Pierre Amelot pass?
Mr. T. P. I think so, but I’m not sure. As they blew themselves up, it’s hard to tell if he was wounded in the torso. I think I had hit him, because the shooting stopped, and the door closed. The fact that the Kalashnikov collapses and the doors close seems significant to me. Later, we talked to the civilian who made us signs in the passage Saint-Pierre Amelot: he told us we had hit the shooter and that’s why he had stopped firing.
After this time, the shots we heard inside were only very sporadic.There has been no more rounds fired. In all likelihood, a terrorist or more people were finishing their victims off. Then, I have to confess that I have only made fifteen meters [50 feet] inside the Bataclan behind the BIS. My presence was not necessary, so I left. I had seen enough.
Pierre Lellouche. Where were the people being tortured?
Mr. T. P. Upstairs.
Pierre Lellouche. This happens after the person you hurt went upstairs?
Mr. T. P. I even think that it happened before, but this is only my personal opinion. While we were fighting with a terrorist at the emergency door, another one was doing all these despicable things upstairs.
Pierre Lellouche. The video was sent?
Mr. President Georges Fenech. I understand that videos were sent.
Pierre Lellouche. We can find it out if the victims’ cell phones were recovered. Do we have them?
Mr. T. P. They blew themselves up. There were people decapitated, people with their throats slit, people who were gutted. There were pretend sexual acts on women and stabbing at the genitals. If I’m not mistaken, the eyes of some people have been gouged.
Hearing in camera, of Mr. Michel Cadot, prefect of police in Paris, Christian Sainte, director of the judicial police in Paris, Jacques Méric, director of security near the Paris area, and General Philippe Boutinaud, commander of the brigade of firemen of Paris (BSPP)
Minutes of the hearing in camera of Wednesday, March 23, 2016
The Rapporteur. Have Bataclan terrorists committed beheadings and mutilations? Was the victims’ cause of death other than by shooting or explosion? We are dealing with contradictory information – some of which were provided to us during our hearings – that must be clarified.
Justice Georges Fenech. Indeed, the Committee is troubled by this information which haven’t leaked anywhere. Thus, the father of one of the victims sent me a copy of a letter he sent to the investigating judge, which I quote in summary:
“On the causes of the death of my son A.,I was told, in the forensic institute in Paris, and with reserves given the shock I was in at that moment, that his testicles were cut off and put in his mouth, and that he was disembowelled. When I saw him behind glass, lying on a table, a white shroud covering him up to the neck, a psychologist was with me. The latter said: ‘The only presentable part of your son is his left profile.’ I noticed that he had no right eye. I mentioned it; I was informed that they had gouged his eye and crushed the right side of his face, where there was a very large hematoma that we could all see during the casketing.”
This particular testimony could corroborate the statements made by one of the BAC officials that one of the investigators vomited immediately on leaving the Bataclan after finding one decapitation and several eviscerations. Are you aware of such facts?
Michel Cadot. I had no knowledge of these facts, nor by the Forensic Institute or by the officials in question. It is obviously up to the court to assess the veracity of the investigation. Nevertheless, I realized that at the site of the attack we found no knife or other sharp device that would allow this type of mutilations. It will be easy to verify as part of the investigation. In my case, once again, I have not received any message from the Forensic Institute or the direction of guardianship of the relevant BAC that would suggest it was true [NT that there were mutilations].
Christian Sainte. I cannot jump to the conclusions at this point, given the state of the investigation, but nothing in the present state of my knowledge allows me to think that what has just been read is true. I specify, for the sake of clarity, some of the bodies found at the Bataclan were extremely mutilated by the explosions and weapons, to the point that it was sometimes difficult to reconstruct the dismembered bodies. In other words, injuries described by this father may also have been caused by automatic weapons by explosions or projections of nails and bolts.
Justice Georges Fenech. His testicles were apparently put in his mouth …
Christian Sainte. I do not have that information and if these facts had been established, I think I wouldn’t have missed such information.
Hearing in camera, Mr. François Molins, prosecutor grande instance (TGI) in Paris, Véronique Degermann, Deputy Prosecutor of the Republic to the same TGI, and Ms. Camille Hennetier, Deputy Attorney of the Republic to TGI
Minutes of the hearing in camera of Wednesday, March 30, 2016
The judge. Following the November attacks, barbaric acts were reported to the commission.
François Molins. It’s a rumor. Forensic doctors were clear: there was no act of barbarism, no use of knives. According to a witness, the testicles of a person would have been cut, but no findings have corroborated it.
Mr. Sébastien Pietrasanta, rapporteur. I command your work, Mr. Prosecutor. Your voice is heard and respected by all.
REPORT FILED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF INQUIRY created as one the means used by the State to fight against terrorism since January 7, 2015 / PART 2: REPORTING OF HEARINGS
30/11/15
Rare testimonies posted online mentioned that heads were cut during the hostage-taking in the concert hall. Two weeks after the attacks, the internet users get angry and demand a government response.
(…)
Despite calls from the internet users who ask for a communicate about this rumor, the government remained silent.
16/11/15
“My son, who is a policeman, saw a spectacle of blood and severed heads …”
(…) One can then imagine the anxiety of relatives of the policeman. They will learn later that Marc is close to the room of the Bataclan, where the hostages are being kept. He has to monitor a bar. “I watched television until three in the morning,” continues Jeanine. “And then I just got a message from my son.” Mark only returns to his apartment the next morning. He then calls his mother. “It was reassuring to know that he was in his bed. He was tired. He said he was wearing two bulletproof vests and a helmet, and that it was very heavy. And then he told me that it was not pretty sight. His experience was horrible. He saw blood, severed heads … “An ordeal that started for him again last night, since he was back in service.
(…) Le Progrès
Testimony of a British survivor: “ISIS men with knives used them to torture their already wounded victims by slitting their stomachs open, when they lay on the ground. “
(…) Mirror.co.uk
[Ed: There are now many reports in the English media. But this is an original translation from a highly respected French counter-jihad blog]
A Nice resident of Tunisian origin at the wheel of the truck (with updates)
An original translation by Ava Lon with much thanks
From this French language site:
INFO NICE MORNING. A Nice resident of Tunisian origin at the wheel of the truck [NT “Resident” here implies that he is a French passport holder]
A Nice resident of 31 years of age, of Tunisian origin, was driving the truck that claimed the lives of over 70 people on the Promenade in Nice on Thursday night.
According to our information, it was a Nice resident from Tunisia that was driving the truck. The 31 years old man has also fired at the crowd as he drove. More than 70 people died.
His truck was loaded with weapons and grenades.
The driver was shot dead by police.
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DIRECT. At least 80 dead after a truck plowed into the crowd after the fireworks in Nice
A truck drove through the crowd gathered for the fireworks on Thursday evening shortly after 10:30 pm, leaving more than 70 dead.
A truck drove through the crowd waiting for the fireworks on the Promenade des Anglais on Thursday, shortly after 10:30 pm.
A provisional toll reported at least 75 dead and over 40 seriously injured.
11:44 pm UN condemns attack “barbaric and cowardly”
The UN Security Council has “condemned in the strongest terms the barbaric terrorist and cowardly attack” committed Thursday in Nice (France).
In a unanimous statement, the 15 members of the Council expressed “deep sympathy and condolences” to the families of the victims and the French government.
They reiterated “that terrorism in all its forms is one of the most serious threats to international peace and security.”
“All acts of terrorism are criminal and unjustifiable,” say the 15 countries, which reaffirmed “the need for all States to fight” the terrorist threat “by all means” in accordance with international laws.
Council members “also emphasize the need to prosecute those responsible for acts of terrorism.”
11:42 p.m. The CFCM and the Great Mosque of Paris condemned the bombing in Nice
The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) and the Great Mosque of Paris condemned the attack that Thursday night in Nice caused at least 80 dead, mowed down by a truck crashed into the crowd on the Promenade des Anglais.”France has just been hit again by an attack of extreme gravity,” laments the CFCM in a statement, condemning the attack “heinous and abject hitting our country on the day of the national holiday that celebrates values of liberty, equality and fraternity. “
The CFCM transmits its total solidarity with the inhabitants of Nice, expresses its deep sympathy to the families of the many victims and wish a speedy recovery to the injured, “it added. He also called on Muslims in France to pray Friday” in memory of the victims this barbaric attack. “
11:32 pm 18 people injured in an absolute emergency state
A final provisional toll reported 80 dead. 18 seriously injured people are absolute emergency.
10:39 pm
Interior Ministry
The vigipirate plan was put on “#attentat alerte”[terrorist attack alert] in the department #Nice
The @gouvernementFR advocates the cancellation of all events planned to #Nice in the coming days
10:37pm The Vigipirate raised in “Terrorist attack alert”
The interior minister announced Friday night that the plan Vigipirate was updated into ” terrorist attack alert” the department of Alpes-Maritimes.
10:34
Gregory Leclerc
LIVE on #Periscope: Press Conference Bernard Cazeneuve #attentatnice
10:24Promenade des Anglais closed indefinitely
It will be impossible to drive on the Prom ‘for an indefinite period, between Carras and the Theatre de Verdure.
The city of Nice invites motorists to take the Mathis and the highway. Bypassing the town will be free during the closure of the Prom ‘.
9:54
Nice-Matin
Hollande: “I would go to Nice after the next defense counsel” #AttentatNice
Hollande: “I decided following the suggestion of the prime minister that we will maintain high-level operation Sentinel” #AttentatNice
Hollande: “We will further strengthen our actions in Syria and Iraq” #AttentatNice
Hollande: “We can deploy the operational reserve everywhere where we need them” #AttentatNice
9:53 pm
Nice-Matin
Hollande: “I decided to use the operational reserve” #AttentatNice
Hollande:”Nothing will make us lose our determination to fight against terrorism” #AttentatNice
Hollande:The state of emergency will be extended by three months “#AttentatNice
9:39 pm
National Police 06
[#PerimetreSecurite] English promenade closed to pedestrians #LENVAL #JARDIN ALBERT 1. Please follow these instructions
9:27 pm
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9:19 pm
Christian Estrosi
Tomorrow the flags of the city will be at half mast. After the cancellation of the Rihanna concert, jazz festival is canceled.
9:16 pm At least 80 dead according to a latest report
9:08 pm. A Nice resident from Tunisia at the wheel of the truck
According to our information, this is a Nice resident originally from Tunisia which led the truck. The 31 years old man has also fired at the crowd as he drove. More than 70 people died.
8:40 pm
Interior Ministry
#Nice 2 telephone numbers 01 43 17 56 46 for public information and 04 93 72 22 22 for the relatives of the victims # Nice06
8:40 pm Christian Estrosi evokes “the worst tragedy in the history of Nice”
8:38 pm Barack Obama “Our thoughts and prayers are with the families”
The President of the United States responded after the attack in Nice.
“We are in solidarity with France, our oldest ally, when she is facing this attack,” Obama said in a statement, offering the help of the United States in the investigation to find those responsible for this tragedy.
other reactions of the politicians [NT do you want more platitudes?]
8:30 pm New update 77 dead
Christian Estrosi
The death toll of this terrible attack is 77 victims.
“People are running, it’s panic. He went on the Prom and he plowed into everybody,” explains Damien Allemand, our colleague, present at the time of the drama .. “There are people covered in blood, probably many dead. “
On Twitter, the evidence began to arrive shortly after 10:30 pm.
Natalie Huron
People stranded and hiding in the lobbies of buildings, deserted terraces and in the emergency cars # Nice06
Ougaverde
# Nice06 a total scene of carnage. Many testimonies speak of a truck that drove into the crowd by the sea.
Marco Demerling
Friends from Nice, I hope you are safe. ? # Nice06
Stabilo
I am on site, the cops told us to run in the opposite direction
Truck and gun attack in Nice France on Bastille day ongoing:
WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC VIDEO OF ATTACK IN NICE
Which was banned from Twitter and they closed the account of the people hosting it.
This is going to be a sloppy post of links as this is all breaking now.
Eye witness account, gunfire, planned
Truck drove into crowds for miles
Will update THIS post as more is known. Check back in 20 minute intervals
Dozens dead:
More video from scene:
The SUN UK has 60 dead and a hundred or hundreds injured.
France plans to lift the state of emergency July 26th.
(Cause after all, it was a criminal attack. Right?)
Thank you Tasha Car, M., Wrath of Khan, a huge number of people who are sending in links via twitter, SMS and email.
Will add your links later. Meanwhile, the Islamic State celebrates for the moment.
Last I heard, President Holand and President Barack Obama both agreed to legislate truck control immediately and reduce the use of diesel fuel in both countries. The theory is that diesel fumes make Muslims go crazy.
First person accounts of the events at the Bataclan club, Friday the 13th of Nov. 2015
An original translation by Ava Lon with much thanks.
From le Figaro French news site:
Attacks of November 13: the confessions of the first police officer to be entered in the Bataclan.
Before the parliamentary committee, the police commissioner admitted he did not think he would “live through this hell.” Arriving before anyone else, he killed the jihadist Samy Amimour.
“For us, everyone was dead.” Before the parliamentary commission investigating the 2015 attacks, the Police Commissioner who was the very first responder of the Paris Bataclan concert November 13, tells how he shot down one of the jihadists. A chilling story, delivered in camera and anonymously, the transcript of which was released on Tuesday.
The man especially shares the feeling of terror during the first moments of the operation, even outside the room, seeing “the dead people on the ground in front of us.” “I remember seeing two: a man in front of the Bataclan Café and a woman outside the entrance. We (also with his police driver, Ed) were recorded because someone was filming with a mobile phone. We told him to leave. We heard gunfire.” The police commissioner then looked at his partner, saying: “Let’s go.” The two men understood each other in a glance, according to him. “It was enough to understand that we were on the same wavelength, and we were unified, a team.”
A face-to-face with Samy Amimour
Around 9:54 p.m., the two team members enter the Bataclan, without waiting for reinforcements, and without knowing what awaits them inside.” As soon as we started to move forward, Bataclan’s wooden swinging doors opened towards us, and between fifteen and thirty people fled running and screaming in our direction,” he said before the parliamentary committee. “From the moment we started to progress down the hall, the shooting stopped, and when we entered, there was no more shooting, it was silence.” “There, the scene was indescribable — you can imagine. Hundreds of bodies — for us, everyone was dead — were entangled with each other: at the bar, in the pit, sometimes piled on more than one meter [three feet] high,” he says. The man then describes an “icy silence” in this still concert hall that was so festive only a few minutes earlier. The Commissioner then describes the terrible face-to-face that eventually led him to kill one of the jihadists who was about 25 meters [80 feet] away. “One of the terrorists, whom we later identified as Samy Amimour […] appeared on the scene. He was in front of us and was holding his assault rifle and threatening a young man a few meters from him. I shot four times and my teammate did twice. The man uttered a groan, collapsed and fell to the ground.”
“There were only the two of us, we had no long guns, we did not know where the terrorists were” — Police Commissioner present at the Bataclan
Seconds later, the officer described an explosion “very high”. This was actually Samy Amimour’s explosive belt that went off. Then an exchange of fire took place in the room, before a new pause. The two men ducked. “We were certain we would not get out of that hell alive,” he said. “There were only the two of us, we didn’t have rifles, we didn’t know where the terrorists were. So I decided to go out to see if reinforcements had arrived.”
“The living pretending to be dead”
Once the two policemen left the room, the gunfire resumed “piecemeal” inside. “So we understand that they are executing people. It was not humanly possible […] for us to stay outside. So we’re all back inside (there are now a dozen policemen, Ed). There was still shooting in our direction, but it was really hard to tell where from. I fired back twice.” When they arrive, people still don’t move. “We could tell that even the living were pretending to be dead,” insists the policeman.
The man explains that after a moment, when the shooting stopped, he decided “to go find the victims who were in the pit a few meters from us.” There, they began to move and to show themselves. “We started to implement an evacuation, one by one, not without difficulties: the floor was very slippery, because there was blood and casings everywhere. We had to step over or move the deceased. There were also people that we knew very well were seriously injured, but we had to retrieve them anyway, unable to use normal aid techniques to transport the victims,” says the police Commissioner.
Germany: First nationwide raid against hate posts on the internet
An original translation by Nash Montana
From this German language website
Because hate on the Internet is rising, the BKA (Bundeskriminalamt, Federal Criminal Police Office) wants to set an example: this morning sixty apartments were searched nationwide. One emphasis is on Bavaria — that’s where the accusations weigh especially heavily.
On Wednesday, in their first nationwide operation to fight against hate crime on the Internet, the police searched the homes of sixty accused in fourteen states, among them eleven suspects from Berlin. The goal is to counter rapidly accelerating “verbal radicalism” and related criminal offenses on the net, the BKA explains in Wiesbaden. The supposed anonymity of the Internet lowers inhibitions about writing hate speech.
25 police precincts worked together at a national level for this raid. Investigations are made based on the suspicion of sedition, related to the use of emblems of organizations that are unconstitutional. The offending language is also connected with utterances against refugees, say the Berlin state police. One investigation from the prosecutor’s office in Kempten assumed particular importance, the BKA announced. According to the information, it concerned a secret Facebook group in which the users glorify national socialism as well as exchanging xenophobic and anti-Semitic content. According to the police, with regard to that group, about forty homes of suspects were searched in thirteen states.
BKA chief: putting a stop to the coarsening of language
“The number of cases of politically right motivated hate criminality on the Internet has also risen in the wake of the European refugee situation,” says BKA chief Holger Münch. “The hate criminality on the net must not poison the social climate.” Attacks on refugee shelters are often the result of radicalization that begins on the Internet. “Therefore we have to put a stop to the coarsening of language, and investigate punishable content on the Internet.” With this operation the citizens also must become more sensitive, the BKA says. Whoever finds hate posts on the Internet should immediately report them.
Federal minister of justice Heiko Maas (SPD, Socialists) welcomed the operation. “The determined action of the administration should make everyone think before they pound on the keys to post on Facebook,” the minister says. “The creators of punishable hate posts are looking at punishments that will hurt. The Internet is not a lawless room. There is no tolerance for punishable offenses on the net.” Maas also warned that the citizens and society as well carry responsibility to counter radical incitement. “Analog as well as digital, it stands: We cannot leave the field to radical haters. The silent majority can no longer be silent.” Minister of the Interior Thomas de Maizière (CDU, Christian Democrats) said: “We have moral principles, online as well as offline.” Verbal violence is not acceptable and it lays the ground for real violence. “Our law also works on the Internet,” says de Maizière.
Just how much this topic has gained focus in political debates is revealed also through earlier remarks made by the Minister of Justice. The trolls have in the meantime become monsters, Maas wrote last November 2015 in the Tagesspiegel. Next to Islamic hate preachers who move about on the net, it is mostly German ‘anger citizens’ who spread hate. And with the rising number of refugees in Germany, the persecution of that group of people has risen. But the persecution of refugees is hard to counter with just Facebook regulations: subsequent to those, posts are only deleted that disparage ethnic groups, sexual orientation or gender. Refugees are not acknowledged as a group.
Stress with the employer
Hate comments on the Internet are punished with relatively high monetary penalties. “Merkel has to be stoned more often,” one user wrote, and had to pay €2000. Someone who posted in a group that was collecting donations for asylum seekers wrote that he would donate a hand grenade and a gas cylinder; he had to pay €7500 as the penalty for sedition. Many states have in the meantime installed so-called “Internet watches”, where hate comments can be reported online.
A person who posts hate speech under his real name should in the meantime fully expect that other users will tell that person’s employer. This is what happened to an employee of Condor Security, who wrote on Facebook that he wanted to plow down refugees with a snow plow. A short while later the company announced that they had let the man go. Another example: A Hermes [similar to FedEx] delivery man commented on the picture of the dead three-year-old Aydan Kurdi at the beach in Lesbos “We are not grieving; we are celebrating it.” He also lost his job. The man was also charged with “denigration of the memory of the deceased”.
the Brazilian member of the Islamic state planned to attack French delegation in Rio, newspaper says
An original translation by José Atento
From this Portuguese language publication.
Information was revealed by the French secret service during Parliamentary hearings on on the 2015 attacks
RIO – A Brazilian member of the Islamic state was preparing an attack on the French delegation during the Olympic Games in Rio, according to the results of a parliamentary survey released on Wednesday by the French newspaper “Libération”. The content was revealed during a hearing behind closed doors on May 26 with the head of the military intelligence (Direction du Renseignement Militaire), General Christophe Gomart, in a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry about the 2015 attacks in France. The report was the site of headline European newspaper.
In the published transcript, Gomart does not give many details about the attack plan and responds to parliamentarians he just learned about the information “through partners.”
According to “Libération”, this passage should not have gone public, which explains the apparent inconsistency of the transcript. In the text published on the National Assembly website, Gomart reports the monitoring carried out by the intelligence service on suspects originated from Yemen and Libya, when the subject suddenly appears, as can be seen below:
General Christophe Gomart: At least three sources with references to websites Daech [acronym of the Islamic State] in several Syrian cities could also be evaluated thanks to the knowledge and DRM catches [Direction du Renseignement Militaire] (…) These changes enable you to recover and confirm the information in the theaters of operations [military term].
George Fenech (Member): I had not heard of this Brazilian who intended to commit attacks against the French delegation at the Olympic Games. How do you know that?
General Christophe Gomart: For our partners.
In the evaluation of the newspaper, “our partners” would be countries with which France contributes in the fight against terrorism. The “Libération” highlights that Brazil plans an “anti-terrorist center” composed of US, British, Spanish and French experts.
North African Muslim attacks 17th century Crucifix
The history on the Church can be read here.
The edifice is popular as the seat of the cult of Saint Lucy of Syracuse, whose remains are housed inside.[…]The church is object of pilgrimages and wide devotion for the presence of the relics of Saint Lucy, which were carried here in 1861 when the nearby church dedicated to her was demolished. In 1955 Angelo Roncalli, future Pope John XXIII and then Patriarch of Venice, had a silver mask put on the saint’s face to protect it from dust.The saint’s body was stolen on July 7, 1981, but was restored in December of the same year without any ransom.
The Crucifix can be seen at 26 seconds here:
Video of the damage and description of attack in Italian:
Article in Italian here. Partial machine translation reads:
A young man of North African origin likely entered the church of St. Jeremiah and has heavily damaged the religious artifact. It was stopped by the caretaker and some faithful.
“It’s wrong. It’s all wrong,” he kept repeating the young Muslims that this morning has created havoc in the church of St. Jeremiah , in Cannaregio, Venice (the same one that houses the relics of Saint Lucia).
The man had been reported outside the church a little ‘revved up: Then, entering the place of worship, began to freak out. In a video spread online, the guardian tells what happened, shocked: “He tried to cross the main altar of the church. He said that ‘something was wrong'”.
H/T M