Many dead in coordinated Paris shootings and explosions

[mod]

Fatalities in a restaurant shooting and two explosions elsewhere this evening.

Paris shootings in city centre and explosion at Stade de France - BBC News

 

[Geri]

Looks bad, watching France 24 now.

 

[brogdale]

Still at large...again.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

AFP and Liberation both reporting 18 dead, quoting police. Fucks sake

 

[IC3D]

Hostages taken at Bataclan concert

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

AFP and Liberation both reporting 18 dead, quoting police. Fucks sake

This might be a translation issue - 18 casualties perhaps.

 

[brogdale]

This might be a translation issue - 18 casualties perhaps.

Regrettably not, it would seem.

 

[Sprocket.]

Can't people just stop killing people FFS!

 

[agricola]

Horrifying.

 

[purves grundy]

Fuck, this is looking very grim.

Too early to speculate that it's 'to avenge...'???????

 

[StoneRoad]

Dreadful situation ... but I really wouldn't like to P155 the French security and Police forces about; being as they're usually well tooled up !

 

[passenger]

grim stuff god bless France

 

[Manter]

God this is awful. Liberation is reporting gas canisters with metal bolts. Horrific

 

[brogdale]

Horrifying.

It is, and chilling to think that they'd probably dearly loved to have been able to do that in London tonight.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Kin ell

 

[Flavour]

Stade on France locked down and nobody can leave but apparently Hollande has been evacuated out.

 

[leanderman]

Fuck, this is looking very grim.

Too early to speculate that it's 'to avenge...'???????

Seems very plausible. Less than 24 hours

 

[Treacle Toes]

Fuck, this is looking very grim.

Too early to speculate that it's 'to avenge...'???????

?

 

[8115]

?

Targeted airstrike of a convoy in Syria supposedly killing a key player in ISIS propaganda, it's been the main item on the news all day.

I was half wondering that.

 

[gaijingirl]

oh god...

 

[Manter]

Please god they can't tie it to refugees/Muslims. Please please please

 

[gaijingirl]

fucking hell... 60 hostages being held they're saying.

 

[Orang Utan]

Please god they can't tie it to refugees/Muslims. Please please please

of course they will.

 

[editor]

Chilling photo in The Guardian of the aftermath of the shooting:

Map:

Witness Ben Grant said he was in a bar with his wife when the gunshots were fired and he saw six or seven bodies on the ground. He told the BBC: “I was told people in cars had opened fire on the bar.

“There are lots of dead people. It’s pretty horrific to be honest. I was at the back of the bar. I couldn’t see anything. I heard gunshots. People dropped to the ground. We put a table over our heads to protect us.

“We were held up in the bar because there was a pile of bodies in front of us.”

Paris: shootings and explosions at restaurant, concert hall and Stade de France – live

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Dismembered body at Stade de France and the game continuing.

 

[brogdale]

26 dead and rising AFP

 

[Manter]

of course they will.

I know.

And their situation is already so precarious and the right are so ready to take advantage.

Fuck.

The news is still so confused too- seems to be a couple of things happening in one go

 

[gaijingirl]

Please god they can't tie it to refugees/Muslims. Please please please

already happening... reports of people shouting "allah akbar" on Liberation: "D'après une femme présente dans le restaurant situé de l'autre côté de la rue, une personne a crié «Allah akbar» avant de tirer des coups de feu."

 

[Geri]

There are going to be a lot more casualties. Fuck.

 

[Manter]

Fuck