Six shootings and three explosions have rocked the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Paris. An ongoing shootout is taking place at the venue as French President Francois Hollande is evacuated to safety as he attended a soccer match. The attackers are reportedly equipped with AK-47 assault rifles.
So far there is no indication of any threat to US citizens at this time. Emergency briefings are being conducted by President Francois Hollande, Prime Minister Manuel Valls, and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve. Currently, the suspected shooters are assumed to by Syrian “returnees,” citizens who traveled to Syria and returned to Paris.
If true, this would indicate that these assailants were perhaps trained at ISIS terror camps, though it is yet undetermined who these terrorists are affiliated with.
An ongoing terrorist attack in Paris has left 60 dead. Hostages have been taken and police are working on subduing the assailants.
— At least 60 people have died in the attacks, CNN affiliate BFMTV reported.
— Counterterrorism officials around the United States have convened secure conference calls to try to gather information and to assess whether there is any indication of threats in the U.S, according to two U.S. counterterrorism officials. There is nothing to indicate any threat to U.S. cities so far. Immediate suspicion for the events in Paris falls to so-called returnees — people who have traveled to Syria and Iraq and have returned, the officials said.
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There was a lockdown at the Stade de France due to possible explosions, according to French media. President Francois Hollande was at the stadium, watching France playing world champions Germany in a friendly soccer match, but he left to go to the Interior Ministry.
Police were outside the scene of one of the shootings, a restaurant in the 10th District.
Lylia Melkonian, a reporter for France 2, told CNN the neighborhood has many restaurants that were packed with patrons. Melkonian said authorities were evacuating the area.
A witness told BFMTV that firefighters were on the scene to treat the injured.
Source: CNN
Updates are incoming as the situation develops.
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Ok. Here is my respons. 1st I’ll begin with math. Math is awesome because it isn’t based on feelings or opinion. There are 2.5 billion muslims on the planet. All estimates from all of the western countries put the number of muslims who are radical at as low as 17% and as high as 25%. Let’s go off the lowest number. 17% of 2.5 billion is 425,000,000. That’s how many people want you dead. And by the lowest estimate. Now some will argue “well not all Muslims are bad”. Which is true. But let’s consider “history”. History is a good way to judge outcomes of the future. History tells us that around 12% of germans were true$#%&!@*s. That means that 88% of germans didn’t want to murder anyone. They just wanted to raise their children and live in peace. But those “good” Germans were insignificant. It still happened didn’t it? Russia during the “purge”. 65 million people murdered by stallin. Estimates say as little as 6% of the Russian population supported this purge of 65 million people. That means that 94% of Russians were good people who just wanted to raise their children and live in peace. But these “good” Russians were insignificant weren’t they? It still happened didn’t it? In Japan under their “shinto” religion/ideology all non Japanese were to become slaves to japan. The government of Japan told it’s people that after America was defeated each Japanese family would receive American slaves. Data shows that around 10% of Japanese people wanted anything to do with it. Meaning 90% of Japanese people just wanted to live in peace. Didn’t want any slaves. But these “good” Japanese were also insignificant. Because it still happened. So in other words it makes no difference how many so called good muslims there are. This war will exist. And at some point you must choose a side.
What religion today is known for , beheadings, car bombings, airplane bombings, suicide bombings, children used as sheilds, burning people alive, treating women as slaves or property, wants everyone dead who don’t believe the same?
Get ready for this in America if they dont stop these Muslims, arrest Obama for the traitor he is
Gun free country you have a country of sitting ducks
I’m waiting for the fans of this FB page to declare this latest attack on France as a “False Flag”. It’s coming.
Innocent people were hurt because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting a gun. Sometime as a country we’ll have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence doesn’t happen in other advanced countries.
I heard it was all a hoax. Paris had been too low key in europe recently. Hence, they made up the story to be on the news.
No, not a false flag. It’s just as real as the Obama administration is behind all this Muslim chaos !!
At this point it doesn’t matter, tell them to kill the other ones, start helping us figure out who they are, lend America a hand….or get the f### on. I’m tired of hearing about people needing help. Americans need to worry about ourselves
While indeed tragic, here another BREAKING STORY:
No doubt this is a tragic day in Paris, but the 24/7 media and political coverage is also tragic!
WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE???
Did you know there have been 2,657 SHOOTING VICTIMS in CHICAGO, Illinois YEAR TO DATE??That’s almost 267 shooting victims PER MONTH where GUNS are OUTLAWED!!! Chicago goes through worse conditions on a MONTHLY/DAILY BASIS than this tragic day in PARIS!! WHERE’S THE MEDIA AND POLITICAL OUTRAGE AND ENDLESS NEWS COVERAGE ABOUT CHICAGO’s THUG ACTIVITY WHICH IS FAR WORSE AND CLAIMS MORE VICTIMS annually than even 9/11??Where’s the Black Lies Matter Protests??? Americans, we are being played and it’s not to our advantage!!!!
So sorry for there people our govermentthe con party have put us in evengreater danger they got rid of our armies the very people that could have saved us now we live in fear of are lives Got rid of most of our police as well our goverment must stand trial