BBC reports:
“A man has been beheaded and at least one other person injured in a suspected Islamist attack on a factory near the French city of Lyon. Several small explosive devices were also set off at the Air Products factory in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, sources said.”
“The alleged attacker is said to have been carrying an Islamist flag, which was found nearby. A man has been arrested, officials say.”
‘Man decapitated’ in French attack (BBC)
Pic: France 24
An Airbus A320 airliner (as top) has crashed in the French Alps near Digne (above), French aviation officials and police have said. The jet belongs to the German low-cost airline Germanwings. The plane was reported to be carrying 142 passengers and six crew members
Le mmf.
St Stephen’s Green, Dublin this afternoon.
Simon Walsh writes:
I only got the French man’s name (Jean Jacques) as this was the briefest encounter. The Irish man ran off just as after I took this…
Needs more Condom.
Earlier: Arrogant Frog
This afternoon.
Grand Canal Quay, Dublin.
Bob Coggins writes:
We’ve just launched the Lucozade Conversion challenge down at Grand Canal Quay, giving away samples and tickets to the Irl vs Fra game – all ya gotta do is get the ball over the bar! Get down tomorrow from 12 noon….
For the weekend that’s in it.
Saturday, 1st March, 1975.
In the centenary year of the Irish Rugby Football Union, once again, the Irish rugby team with its combination of a blatant shove in the back and a dribble up field spirit, skill and enterprise helped lift the island’s morale.
Amateur individuals subservient to the nation.
A double was on.
An almost giddy Edmund Van Esbeck wrote:
Exhilirating back movements, the deftness of the hands and the agility of the limbs of those who do their work in the tight, the ruck, the maul and the line-out. The essential ingredients were forthcoming this time that were so sadly lacking against Scotland
Meanwhile, in the crowd..
Allez what now?
Anyone??
Previously: Frogger, 1983
Yesterday in Paris
Via Marketwatch:
Reporters Without Borders, a nonprofit crusader for free speech, accused “predators of press freedom” of coming to Paris to advance their own agendas.
“We must demonstrate our solidarity with Charlie Hebdo without forgetting all the world’s other Charlies,” the group’s secretary-general Christophe Deloire said. “It would be unacceptable if representatives of countries that silence journalists were to take advantage of the current outpouring of emotion to try to improve their international image and then continue their repressive policies when they return home.”
Specifically, Reporters Without Borders said it was “appalled” by the presence of leaders from countries like Egypt, Russia, Turkey and United Arab Emirates, all of which score woefully low on the RWB’s press freedom index.
Meanwhile…
18) Prime Minister Enda Kenny of Ireland, where “blasphemy” is considered a criminal offense http://t.co/zyJlZnAEwS
— Daniel Wickham (@DanielWickham93) January 11, 2015
Solidarity, hypocrisy in march on the streets of Paris (MarketWatch) Thanks Judith Goldberger
Behind the #JeSuisCharlie photo op: pic.twitter.com/VlYcIaMe5y — Connor Clements (@connorclements) January 11, 2015
Meanwhile…
Des L writes:
I’m no conspiracy theorist, etc, etc. but can you ask Mark Dennehy [Broadsheet-reading firearms expert] if he could examine and explain the footage of the policeman being shot by an AK47 in Paris…
You examine.
After a dramatic car chase, casualties, and gun fire, police in Paris have cornered the suspects in Wednesday’s Charlie Hebdo magazine attack near Charles-de-Gaulle Airport. Amidst efforts to “neutralize the perpetrators,” a hostage crisis rages on.
[French Interior Minister Bernard] Cazeneuve confirmed that an operation to “neutralize the perpetrators” of the attack against the Charlie Hebdo magazine is underway and that the kidnappers are the Kouachi brothers
.Reports are coming in from French media about shots fired in the Seine-et-Marne area in northeastern France, and also a hostage situation and a car chase. RTL reports that at least two people have been seriously injured during or before the hostage-taking in Dammartin-en-Goele.
Gunshots, car chase, hostage situation northeast of Paris (RTL)
Pic Oliver Ceru
From top: the French Embassy, Paschal Donohue and Jean-Pierre Thebault
This afternoon.
Minister for Tourism Paschal Donohoe joined French Ambassador to Ireland Jean-Pierre Thebault at the French Embassy, Ailesbury Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 paying respects to the victims of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris yesterday.
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
Fred writes:
Aaahh l’Irlande :) No translation needed.
Irlande: Un dessin ressemblant à un pénis sur des boites de lait (JeanMarcMorendi)..
Got to love this ;) come on Ireland women brilliant game 15 – 12 at half time ! Eyes on the prize @TG4TV @Rugbai_BEO pic.twitter.com/216T64Vt83
— Rosie Foley MSc INTERNATIONAL (@FoleyRosie) August 17, 2014
Spotted during Ireland’s loss to France at the 3rd/4th place play-off in Paris at the IRB Women’s Rugby World Cup.
Never mind.