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Truck Attack in France Kills 70+
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So this is fucking awful:
This is bad enough by itself, but coming so soon after the attacks in November is doubly horrifying.
A lorry has struck a crowd during Bastille Day celebrations in the southern French city of Nice, killing about 60 people, officials are quoted as saying by local media.
The incident took place on the famous Promenade des Anglais during a firework display.
One image on Twitter showed about a dozen people lying on the street.
The local prefecture has urged people in the area to remain indoors, calling the incident "an attack".
Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi said that "a lorry driver appears to have killed dozens of people".
Sebastien Humbert, the prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes region, told France's BFM TV that the lorry driver had been shot dead.
French media later quoted Nice prosecutors as saying that about 60 people were dead.
Prosecutor Jean-Michel Pretre said the lorry drove two kilometres (1.2 miles) through a large crowd, the AFP news agency reports.
This is bad enough by itself, but coming so soon after the attacks in November is doubly horrifying.
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Edit: that's clearly not the worst part, for me or anyone. It's just another shitty part.
Godfuckingdammit.
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as i said in the Brit politics thread, this would be tragic on its own but as yet another addition to the list of attacks that the French have endure recently its especially heartbreaking.
I fly to London in a couple days to meet my folks, sister, and brother-in-law, who are all in Paris now. Just got a text from them checking in, but one of my first thoughts - thankfully they're in Paris - made me angry and disgusted in a way I haven't been in years; with myself, with the world, with everything. "Thankfully." That's what it comes down to. "Thankfully" it was someone else's family; dozens of someone else's. "Thankfully" it was some other Bastille Day celebration.
Thank-fucking-fully.
I'm reaching for words and they're just not there. What a goddamned mess.
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Fucking.
DAMNIT!
What is wrong with the world?????
It happened right after a fireworks performance celebrating Bastille Day (French Independence Day) as the crowd was walking away.
Description of a video of the event, for those that want to know without watching the video but spoilered for those that don't want to read it.
Hugs, dude. I understand what you mean, I think we all do.
As much as we're all shocked and horrified, and with how much all our hearts go out to the victims and their families - I'm so, so glad your family is safe and well.
Much love to you and your family.
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Fuck!
in the video you can actually see
Reuters on news.yahoo.com
Fuck!
Edit: Having grenades seems like a big deal. I'm concerned there is more that was planned.
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Obsolete technology serves no purpose here.
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Yeah, as awful as this is, it sounds like it could have been a lot worse. It doesn't sound like he managed to detonate anything.
Still, the driver apparently drove through the crowd for 2km before being stopped.
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He apparently "turned the wheel to hit the maximum number of people" while he was driving too, but despite the horrific death toll - 77 now - the police were on the scene, firing at him before he reached the festival, surrounded him as soon as he stopped and got many people to flee the scene before they were put in harm's way, so this could have been even worse.
It's common enough we're getting into a routine. Speeches about solidarity and consolation, landmarks lit up in the appropriate colours, etc.
It's important, I don't want to see it stop, but it's hard not to notice that it's becoming part of how we handle these things on what feels like an awfully regular basis.
Fuck.
I want some politician to react like a human fucking being full of complex emotion and adult feelings.
Edit: I'm tired of the epic shrug and lip service that happens every two weeks when people die in unacceptable ways. I'm not trying to diminish the actual tragedy.
It's only going to get worse during our lifetimes. Maybe in 200+ years the slaughter will abate, but it's unlikely any of us will see that day. This has been happening for generations already, it's just now slipped outside of the parts of the world where nobody even remembers a time when it was novel.
It's all the more reason for people to let go of petty anger a little more easily and grant kindness a little more freely so there's a little more light in the world no matter the times ahead.
FFS that's just a month shy of the first anniversary of the Paris attacks. What a fucking nightmare.
edit: Caught myself wishing for the old days when these attacks were committed by the mentally unhinged fighting for or against their lizard god, rather than as part of organizations.
Fucking A.
I hate how the immediate response from many will be to bomb everything in the ME, shit on Muslims and move closer to a police state. It's a fucking awful thing and I get people are scared, but I also think people need to get a grip as well. Bad shit happen in this world, this may or may not be worse than it ever was, but there is also a certain point where more security measures end up being harmful to a peaceful society.
I'm also getting sick and tired, that some of the loudest voices that scream "we aren't doing enough" on the political side of things. Happen to be the same assholes that despise the ideas of diplomacy and humanitarian aid. Those also tend to be the same ass hats that are intolerant and have to prove they are tough guys, thus creating areas where the shitty ideology of assholes, has fertile ground to grow.
Finally and sadly, I think we'll see more of this awful shit because plenty of what feeds into this, is stuff that won't be resolved quickly. It's stuff that is going to take time.
Do we actually have any information about who the attacker was, yet?
Having to ignore every news source until things have been vetted is worse than the shock of hearing its happening.
My mom's words at hearing about this, "France can not catch a break."
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Being a good internet citizen, I went to find out and almost immediately saw a body bag with a doll next to it; immediately followed by a picture of covered objects to small to be contiguous adults.
And so I hoped they were adults.
So I'm done.
"Some asshole"
Fuuuuuuuck.
It's my great hope that none of these groups ever acquire or effectively deploy a weapon of mass destruction. The return swing from an effective use of such a weapon on a major Western or Far Eastern city would make the destruction we've seen in Iraq and Syria pale in comparison; to call it Biblical might not even fully grasp the totality of the response.
I expect it to happen within our lifetimes, though not in the next year or two. At the moment I'm more worried about them realizing just how much of the world is a weapon. As a person with a paranoid+hostile childhood I have this habit of figuring out ways to combine different elements of my surroundings into really dangerous things and... I never voice any of them or write them down because they're incredibly actionable.
Our world is extremely dangerous and is only seemingly safe because most of us want to live good lives.