Gunman storms supermarket, takes hostages, Montpellier France, 23.03.2018

[Pickman's model]

 

[Idris2002]

I hope this isn't going to be one of those incidents, but it probably will.

Breaking news is that a gunman has stormed a supermarket in Montpellier, southern France and taken some people hostage.

Hostages taken and shots fired at Montpellier supermarket, French media report

 

[Pickman's model]

waiting for more info

 

[Pickman's model]

editor jihadi hostage taking in france 23/3/18 pls merge threads

 

[Pickman's model]

I hope this isn't going to be one of those incidents, but it probably will.

Breaking news is that a gunman has stormed a supermarket in Montpellier, southern France and taken some people hostage.

Hostages taken and shots fired at Montpellier supermarket, French media report

mail says yer man's inspired at least by isis

 

[Idris2002]

Great minds think alike, eh pix?

 

[Pickman's model]

Great minds think alike, eh pix?

fools run in the same vein

 

[krtek a houby]

France does seem to get a lot of this misery

 

[Idris2002]

More here:

At least one person shot in hostage-taking at French supermarket

Les flics are treating it as a terror incident, for real. I didn't realise that the state of emergency had been lifted last October - but it's not like it made much real difference. At least tow people have been shot already.

 

[Pickman's model]

from the sun

 

[StoneRoad]

BBC News link

Hostages taken at French supermarket

No new information at this point (1130)

 

[Pickman's model]

i suppose i'd better stand in for the unavoidably absent squirrelp and, while we're waiting for more information, propose that this is a false flag operation on the basis of absolutely no evidence whatsoever

 

[Idris2002]

i suppose i'd better stand in for the unavoidably absent squirrelp and, while we're waiting for more information, propose that this is a false flag operation on the basis of absolutely no evidence whatsoever

A false flag, yesterday:

 

[not-bono-ever]

"pledged allegiance to the Islamic State"

why oh why oh why oh why.....

 

[StigoftheDig]

He has been "shot" says Sky. . .

Dunno if that means fatally or not. Don't even know if it means it's all over.

Latest I've seen is that two people are confirmed dead - one the occupant of a car that the hostage take stole, the other at the supermarket - and as many as "a dozen" have been injured.

All gleaned from fairly decent sources: AFP, Guardian, BBC, Sky...

I do hope it's over.

Other reports include: "known to the authorities as potential extremist", Morrocan or Franco-Moroccan, also a petty criminal (drugs, theft), demanded the realese of Paris attacker currently on trial in Belgium, various stuff about whether Daesh has or hasn't claimed this (it seems not yet from the best sources I've seen, though they are celebrating it in any case...).

So hopefully all over.

 

[StigoftheDig]

"Shot dead"

 

[Idris2002]

"Shot dead"

C'est genial.

 

[not-bono-ever]

bof

shame about the others dead an injured tho

 

[Pickman's model]

"Shot dead"

tant pis, as they say in cherbourg

 

[StoneRoad]

BBC report / update ...

French police shoot supermarket gunman

Suspect shot and killed by police - he had already killed three people.
Reading further into the article - he was known to authorities as a petty criminal, but not thought to be radicalised.

 

[agricola]

Fair play to whoever the officer was who swapped himself for a hostage, hope he pulls through.

 

[A380]

Fair play to whoever the officer was who swapped himself for a hostage, hope he pulls through.

Proper heroism Arnaud Beltrane: in cold blood, to swap yourself for a member of the public knowing you would most likely get shot in their place. Like Ahmed Merabet the Paris cop who took the two Charlie Hebbdo killers on with a hand gun versus two assault rifles, when he could have just stayed hidden in cover, knowing it was going to cost him his life.

 

[kebabking]

The Policeman died this morning.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I’m as ACAB as the next man, especially when it comes to French plod, but fuck me, respect to this chap. Bet the woman he swapped places with is suffering savage head-fuck right now.

 

[StigoftheDig]

 

[gosub]

RIP.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

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Fuck ... that's so sad...

 

[dessiato]

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Seems he expected to be killed. Brave man to walk in to save others. RIP.

 

[Grump]

A brave man. At a time when you look at what humans can do to each other and despair it is uplifting to think that we are also capable of such acts of love and self sacrifice.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I’m as ACAB as the next man, especially when it comes to French plod, but fuck me, respect to this chap. Bet the woman he swapped places with is suffering savage head-fuck right now.

Credit where credit's due, he did the best thing any copper can do. He got himself killed.