Man 'In Suicide Vest' (unconfirmed) Shot Dead By Paris Cops

A man shot dead outside a police station in northern Paris may have been wearing a suicide vest. Police union sources said the man attempted to enter the building with a knife before he was shot by officers, while the Interior Ministry wearing an explosives vest.
Two officials have reportedly said the man had wires extending from his clothing and a bomb disposal team was sent to the scene.
Anna Polonyi, an editor with the International New York Times, posted a picture of a bomb disposal robot apparently being used to inspect the man's body.

She said the man had been running towards the building when he was shot at around 12pm local time (11am UK time).
The man was heard shouting "Allahu Akbar" as he approached, the Interior Ministry said.
Pictures posted on social media showed a man in jeans and a grey jacket lying with his arms out at his sides on the pavement, yards from the entrance to the police station.
A Paris police official said the attack was being investigated as a possible terrorist incident.

http://news.sky.com/story/1618421/man-in-suicide-vest-shot-dead-by-paris-cops

"Police union sources?" Can't the police speak for themselves? If they have something I'm sure they will release it in good time.

I saw somewhere he had a knife.

As they have now said that the 'suicide vest' was a fake, it strikes it sound like 'suicide by cop'.

sassy wrote:As they have now said that the 'suicide vest' was a fake, it strikes it sound like 'suicide by cop'.

We are getting some very strange stories lately.

We are indeed Jane.

Today, the one year anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cache attacks, a Jihadist armed with a butcher’s knife and fake suicide vest (according to initial reports), was shot dead while shouting “Allahu Akabar” as he attempted to kill French police officers in Paris. After he was neutralized, the police found two pieces of paper on him, one with an image of the ISIS flag and another with a handwritten note in Arabic claiming responsibility for the attack. This is a scene all too familiar to Israelis, however the international reaction to it, sadly, is not.

There have been no calls on the French government to exercise “restraint” in its reactions to this terror attack. Nor have there been calls for France to negotiate with ISIS or establish a radical Islamist state on French soil. There have been no foreign government officials condemning the Paris police for excessive force or carrying out an extrajudicial killing. The media also had no problem reporting that this was likely an act terrorism or that ISIS is in fact a terrorist organization. The same is true of the reactions to the Islamist hatchet attack in Queens, NY in 2014, the car ramming attack in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec in the same year or of the car ramming and stabbing death of British Fusilier Lee Rigby in 2013 or any of the other numerous “low-level” terror attacks around the world recently.

So what is different between these attacks and those carried out daily in Israel today? The attackers in all cases have been radical Islamists. They all used low-tech weapons to carry out or attempt to carry out murders. Some have openly pledged allegiance to terrorist groups and others were inspired by them.

There are only three real differences:

• The location: Israel

• The target: Jews

• The frequency: Daily

There are numerous excuses for the double standards, but they don’t hold up to any serious scrutiny: “But Israel is bombing the Palestinians!” Is France not bombing ISIS? “But they’re attacking soldiers!” Lee Rigby was a soldier and the victims in France today were police officers (not to mention that the vast majority of Israeli victims are civilians, not soldiers). “But Palestinians don’t have a state of their own!” So we should give ISIS the Caliphate it wants? Would that stop the terror? These are excuses that lack any moral clarity or understanding of the threat of radical Jihad.

The fact of the matter is that if you see two attacks, both carried out by radical Islamists, both attempts to stab someone to death but only consider it terrorism when the intended victim is not Jewish, well there’s a word for that kind of hypocrisy.

And that word is antisemitism.



http://www.israellycool.com/2016/01/08/world-hypocrisy-on-display-in-wake-of-stabbing-in-paris/

sassy wrote:As they have now said that the 'suicide vest' was a fake, it strikes it sound like 'suicide by cop'.

Nail/head. That's what it sounds like to me, too.

I find it incredible that when it is a known ISIS or Islamist terrorist, then the regressives are unconvinced or suspect fould play. Yet when the attacker is unknown, the same regressives are convinced its a far right terrorist, then they are completely convinced or as is normally the case untill two days later the evidence shows the opposite and we are back to them being unconvinced and even in some cases not only make poor excuses for the attacks but even trying to steer away from the facts.

Richard The Lionheart wrote:I find it incredible that when it is a known ISIS or Islamist terrorist, then the regressives are unconvinced or suspect fould play. Yet when the attacker is unknown, the same regressives are convinced its a far right terrorist, then they are completely convinced or as is normally the case untill two days later the evidence shows the opposite and we are back to them being unconvinced and even in some cases not only make poor excuses for the attacks but even trying to steer away from the facts.

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He was named by French media as Sallah Ali, a 20-year old homeless Moroccan born in Casablanca in 1995.
His finger prints matched those of a man arrested for theft in 2013 in southern France.
A scrap of paper found on his body said he wanted to act "to avenge the dead in Syria" and the man had "pledged allegiance to Isil", according to sources close to the inquiry.
Christiane Taubira, the French justice minister, said the fake belt and nature of his written claims suggested he was "unstable".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/12086901/Paris-police-shoot-dead-knife-wielding-man-live.html

Oh the old mental health problems again.

You missed this part, which clearly conflicts with being unstable, unless you think any literal believeing Muslim is unstable?

A scrap of paper found on his body said he wanted to act "to avenge the dead in Syria" and the man had "pledged allegiance to Isil", according to sources close to the inquiry.

whatever...he got what he wanted/deserved whichever way you look at it...

i mean running ANYWHERE shouting "Allahu Akbar" is just asking to be shot down.....