SHOOTING: Deadly gun battle at Paris restaurant, reports of explosion at stadium

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http://www.newsweek.com/france-hold-memorial-service-victims-paris-attacks-398899
France to Hold Memorial Service for Victims of the Paris Attacks

By Mirren Gidda  11/27/15 at 3:43 AM

France will hold a memorial service on Friday for the 130 people killed in a series of attacks in Paris on November 13. One thousand people are expected to attend the event. Those paying their respects will include French President Francois Hollande, survivors of the attacks, and families of the victims. Organizers will hold a one-minute silence and read out a full list of the names of the dead.
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memorial event will be held at Les Invalides, a building complex that includes a military museum and Napoleon’s tomb, according to  the  Guardian. Hollande is expected to address the victims’ families during the service.
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As France gathers to remember the dead, security forces across Belgium and France are still hunting for  one of the suspected attackers , Salah Abdeslam. Nine other alleged attackers are dead, having either committed suicide or been killed by police.
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Napoleon's Tomb

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German prosecutors said today they were investigating whether an illegal arms dealer had sold four assault rifles to a person in the French capital and whether there were "possible links to the attacks in Paris".

The 24-year-old German national from the southwestern town Magstadt was arrested Tuesday on charges of having converted starter guns which shoot blanks into deadly firearms and illegally selling them online. Police had found several handguns during a search of his home, said prosecutors in the nearby city of Stuttgart.

Earlier TOday, the mass-circulation Bild daily reported that the arms dealer, whom it identified as Sascha W, had sold two AK47s and two Zastava M70s on November 7 to an Arab customer in Paris. "French investigators believe that the weapons were allegedly used in the attacks in Paris," said Bild.

Bild said the suspect was accused of having hawked the weapons on the Darknet -- a hidden network used for both legal and illicit ends -- using the name "DW Guns". Four emails on his smartphone had shown that he sold "four Kalashnikov assault rifles to an Arab in Paris", added the newspaper.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/German-arms-dealer-probed-over-possible-link-to-Paris-attacks/articleshow/49953128.cms

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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_FRANCE_ATTACKS_THE_LATEST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-12-02-08-35-28
Dec 2 2015, 8:35 AM EST
The Latest: France shuts down 3 mosques in crackdown
PARIS (AP) -- The latest on the recovery from and investigation into the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. All times local:

2:35 p.m.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says three mosques have been shut down in France since the Paris attacks as part of a crackdown on extremist activities.

Cazeneuve told reporters it was the first time mosques are being closed in France "on grounds of radicalization


One of the mosques, 35 kilometers (22 miles) east of Paris in Lagny-sur-Marne, was targeted by raids early Wednesday, with police seizing a 9mm revolver, a computer hard disc and jihadist propaganda. Cazeneuve said the mosque also had a non-authorized Quranic school.

One person was placed in custody following the raids, with 22 others banned from leaving France. Nine others were put under house arrest.

The two other mosques, in Lyon and Gennevilliers in the Paris region, were shut down last week amid a state of emergency.

Cazeneuve says police have seized 334 weapons since the Nov. 13 attacks that left 130 people dead in Paris.

[Sasha]

Paris attacks: France 'to extend state of emergency indefinitely' - reports
Gianluca Mezzofiore - Dec 3 - IBT

The French government is looking to extend the state of emergency for six months or even "indefinitely", according to new reports.

Government sources told AFP that a draft law of the bill includes plans to change the constitution to carry on with the state of emergency way beyond the three-month limit.

continues...

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34992363
Paris attacks: Belgium charges two more suspects
3 hours ago


Two more men have been charged in Belgium in connection with the 13 November Paris terror attacks.

One was held on Sunday at an airport in Brussels trying to leave for Morocco, prosecutors said. Another was held the same day in Brussels' Molenbeek area.

This brings the number of people charged in Belgium to eight.


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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/12/02/new-arrest-in-deadly-paris-attacks-linked-to-apartment-raid/
New arrest in deadly Paris attacks linked to apartment raid
Published December 02, 2015

PARIS –  French police have arrested two people outside Paris -- one of them for suspected links to the only man charged in connection with the Nov. 13 attacks in the capital, according to two officials close to the investigation.

The first arrest on Tuesday was of a 25-year-old man suspected of being an intermediary to Jawad Bendaoud, who already has been handed preliminary charges for providing housing to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected planner of the Paris attacks that killed 130 people.
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The intermediary, whose name wasn't disclosed, was arrested in his home in Malakoff, south of Paris by counterterrorism police, officials said. A few hours later, police went with the suspect to search another apartment in Saint-Denis, a northern Paris suburb, and arrested a woman who was there.

The officials, who requested anonymity to talk about the ongoing investigation, told The Associated Press that the woman, whose name also wasn't revealed, is the partner of the intermediary. The man and his partner have been taken into custody west of Paris. Officials didn't give details on whether the woman had links to Bendaoud or anyone else suspected of having involvement in the attacks.

The intermediary, who had been known by police only for drug trafficking so far, was also in contact with Abaaoud's cousin, Hasna Aitboulahcen.


Abaaoud, his female cousin and a third man were killed in a police raid on Nov. 18.

[TahoeBlue]

http://news.yahoo.com/marine-le-pen-her-niece-set-lead-far-111250372.html
Marine Le Pen and niece lead France's FN into dominant territory
By Bertrand Pinon
2 hours ago

Paris (AFP) - One is a pragmatist: a 47-year-old lawyer by training who has steered France's far-right National Front (FN) from pariah status to mainstream.

The other is an ideologue: her 25-year-old niece, a Roman Catholic traditionalist whose easy smile and youthful good looks belie a stance on abortion, homosexuality and Islam that critics say is dangerous or sectarian.
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But with the November 13 attacks in Paris, his daughter was able to turn attention away from the family soap opera and declare that the Western world had "no choice but to win the war" against the attackers from the Islamic State group.

"If we fail, Islamist totalitarianism will take power in our country," she said.

[Jackson Holly]

^^^^

Great to see these results ... the far left nutjobs
are having a cow!   

[worcesteradam]

What these guys are getting wrong is that the Communist run the show. Islamists are just a tool of Communists which they are using to undermine a society they hate and are at war with.

The Cold War continues, New Lies For Old.

[Al Bundy]

Muslim terrorist in Paris used AK74 from Montenegro ? 

http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/planeta.299.html:578639-Teroristi-u-Parizu-koristili-puske-JNA-oruzje-ukradeno-u-Crnoj-Gorihttp://

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Gun linked to Paris attacks traced back to Florida arms dealer implicated in Iran-Contra scandal

The serial number for a M92 semi-automatic pistol linked to the deadly Nov. 13 terrorist attacks matched one for a weapon delivered by the Zastava arms factory in May 2013 to Century International Arms in Delray Beach, reported the Palm Beach Post.

Michael Sucher, the owner of Century Arms, did not answer calls seeking comment Thursday and the doors to his shop were closed as TV news crews gathered outside.

Employees leaving the arms dealer’s building did not comment on the case, and a woman who works next door said she had no idea the business dealt guns.

Century Arms buys and sells military-grade surplus guns — with a specialty in buying weapons from overseas and reselling them to dealers — and is one of the largest arms dealers in the U.S.

The company also holds a federal firearms license in Georgia, Vermont, to import and build guns and to import destructive devices such as large-caliber guns and armor-piercing ammunition.

Documents shared by WikiLeaks in 2011 showed Century Arms had illegally traded firearms with the help of “unauthorized brokers.”

The Center for Public Integrity reported that same year that WASR-10 rifles manufactured for Century Arms in Romania had become a favorite of Mexican drug cartels.

John Rugg, a former police officer and longtime Century Arms employee, testified before a U.S. Senate committee in 1987 that the company had supplied rockets, grenades and other weapons to Nicaraguan rebels as part of the Iran-Contra scandal.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/gun-linked-to-paris-attacks-traced-back-to-florida-arms-dealer-implicated-in-iran-contra-scandal/

Just before the start of the rainy season in Guatemala City, a U.S. State Department team landed in the bustling Central American capital on a mission to track forgotten guns.

The goal: to find out how World War II-era rifles, donated by the United States to Guatemala during the Cold War, made their way from a Guatemalan government warehouse to Century International Arms - a Delray Beach gun dealer and one of the largest movers of surplus military weapons in the world.

The April 2008 effort was detailed in secret diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks and made public 10 days ago, documents reviewed by The Palm Beach Post.

To carry out the Guatemala transfer, an Israeli arms dealer with a troubled past took control of at least one shipping container full of American M-1 rifles, guns the Guatemalans were forbidden to sell, and hawked them to Century Arms in 2007.

Gun broker Ori Zoller played the middleman in the Century Arms deal. In Central America, Zoller was a savvy operator with spy-novel credentials. He served as an Israeli special forces soldier and worked as an intelligence officer before founding his gun-dealing business in Guatemala in 1996, according to an investigation by the Organization of American States.

He sometimes moved in shady circles. In January 2001, eight months before 9/11, Zoller tried to round up "arms and ammunition, including twin- and four-barrel anti-aircraft guns, surface-to-air missiles, rocket-propelled grenades, anti-tank 'launchers' and small arms" for Samih Osailly, a Lebanese arms dealer with suspected ties to Al-Qaeda, the OAS found in 2003.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/wikileaks-secret-cables-detail-delray-firms-role-i/nLxsM/

In the early 2000s, a scandal erupted in Latin America when a shipment of 3,000 AK-47s and 2.5 million rounds of ammunition was illegally diverted from the Nicaragua to Colombia, where they ended up in the hands of the right-wing paramilitary group and designated terrorist organization known as the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC). A subsequent OAS investigation found that Shimon Yelinek, a Panama-based Israel arms dealer, was “likely” guilty of committing fraud and violating Colombian anti-terrorism laws. It was also found that two additional Israelis, Ori Zoller and Uzi Kissilevich, who were in charge of a Guatemalan arms dealership were negligent in “their failure to make any attempt to verify the actual destination for the arms.” According to a Wikileaks cable, Zoller eventually became an asset to both the US Drug Enforcement Agency and the US Embassy in Guatemala, although the timeline is unclear.

https://ceinquiry.wordpress.com/2013/12/22/dea/

[worcesteradam]

The OAS report said that Samih Osailly, a Lebanese arrested in Belgium in June 2001, had been in contact with Yelinek to buy arms and ammunition for the neurotically brutal Revolutionary United Front (RUF) faction in Sierra Leone.

[worcesteradam]

The amazing story of his associate: Jamil Sahid Mohamed Khalil

Jamil Sahid Mohamed Khalil (born 1936 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) was a Lebanese-Sierra Leonean businessman and diamond tycoon who made millions of dollars in the diamond trade, fisheries, tourism and an airline. He was exiled from Sierra Leone amidst accusations of a coup plot in 1987 before returning to Freetown few years later and fleeing the country again after the Freetown invasion in 1999.

Jamil Sahid Mohamed Khalil built his vast fortune exporting diamonds to Antwerp during the 1970s and 1980s. He was arguably the most successful Lebanese trader in West Africa. As a result of his activities, he became one of the richest and most powerful men in Africa. However, along with, then-President Siaka Stevens, he is widely accused to have played a major role in the destruction of the Sierra Leonean economy, leaving a legacy of poverty in his wake.

By 1971 the President had put an end to the De Beers monopoly at the request of Jamil, who had already managed to acquire 12% of the concession. By 1984 Jamil bought the remaining shares from De Beers. That marked the first time De Beers ever lost a monopoly in Africa.

In 1985 national currency, the Leone was devalue by nearly 60 per cent and foreign exchange became scarce. Between 1968 to 1985 Stevens and Jamil successfully depleted the finances of Sierra Leone until they had rendered one of the world's biggest producers of diamonds and gold the poorest country on earth

So great was Jamil's influence that he managed to persuade Stevens's handpicked successor, President Joseph Saidu Momoh, to invite Yasir Arafat for a state visit, at the behest of his personal friend, King Hussein of Jordan. The purpose of Arafat's visit was to secure a deal with Momoh to run a Palestinian paramilitary training camp on one of the islands off Sierra Leone's coast

In 1991 Jamil Sahid and his cohort Samih Ossaily are said by some to have organised Sierra Leone's Lebanese diamond traders for the purpose of trafficking the blood diamonds acquired from the mines occupied in Sierra Leone.However, no prosecution was ever intended or any accusations confirmed against Jamil, neither by a Sierra Leonean court, nor by the U.N. Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamil_Sahid_Mohamed_Khalil

They used the dreamt up monopoly argument to get Western De Beers kicked out of the Diamond market and then they themselves took over the diamond maker as representatives of the anti imperialist side.
They so mismanaged the country that they ruined its economy in short order.

[Letsbereal]

SUNDAY WIRE: ‘From Paris to Palmrya’ with host Patrick Henningsen, guest Gearóid Ó Colmáin - AUDIO
13 December 2015, (21st Century Wire)
http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/12/13/episode-113-sunday-wire-from-paris-to-palmerya-with-host-patrick-henningsen-guest-gearoid-o-colmain/

This week’s very special edition of THE SUNDAY WIRE is broadcasting LIVE, as host Patrick Henningsen returns to cover the world’s most audacious news and current affairs internationally. In the first hour we review this week’s latest Islamaphobic hysteria in the United States, we’ll follow the money with ISI$ Oil, and breakdown the US-led “Anti-ISIL (pro-ISIL) Coalition” currently running their western taxpayer-funded international racketeering operation in Syria and Iraq. Also in the first hour, we’re joined by European-based writer and political affairs analyst, Gearóid Ó Colmáin, to break down the French political fall-out from the Paris Attacks, new proposals for concentration camps and terrorist attacks within a GLADIO context, and also how all this relates to the wider geopolitical tensions in Syria, Turkey and the Middle East. In the third and final hour we’ll return to the US to look at the new Trump-Obama Dialectic and also San Bernardino Puzzle and mass brainwashing of the west through media manipulation.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35261223
Paris attacks suspect's 'bomb factory' found in Brussels
2 hours ago

Belgian prosecutors believe they may have found a bomb factory also used as a hideout by one of the jihadists after the Paris attacks.

Police found traces of explosives, three handmade belts and a fingerprint of fugitive Salah Abdeslam.

The apartment in the Schaerbeek district of Brussels had been rented in a false name that might have been used by a person already in custody.

Islamic State (IS) suicide attackers killed 130 people in the attacks.

[TahoeBlue]

oh now a video from the dead attackers ... BRexit anyone? 

Telegraph uses isiL rather than ISIS  hmmm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/12119003/Isil-releases-new-beheading-video-featuring-Paris-attackers.html
Isi S [sic]" l " releases beheading video featuring Paris attackers
Abu Qital al-Faransi and Bilal Hadfi appear in the video, which was shot before the Paris attacks but has now been published
 By James Rothwell, and Josie Ensor
9:17PM GMT 24 Jan 2016

 The gunmen behind the Paris terror attacks have appeared in a newly released Isil video in which they behead several unidentified hostages.

The footage was shot before the attacks took place in November 2015 but was published on Sunday evening.

It is unclear when exactly the footage was filmed.

Among those who carry out the beheadings in the video is Bilal Hadfi, who was killed during the Paris attacks.

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"Whoever stands in the ranks of the kuffar (enemy), will be a target for our swords,” the video warned, showing pictures of Tower Bridge and St Paul’s Cathedral in London, claiming they were ready to strike “any time, anywhere”.
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 The film is more brutal than previous propaganda videos as it does not cut away before the victims are beheaded.

The video finishes with an encrypted massage dated Nov 16, 2015 which they say reveals the location of their next attack.

[Letsbereal]

'Eagles Of Death Metal' Frontman Says Guards Knew About Paris Attacks In Advance
13 March 2016, by Claire Bernish - The Anti Media (Zero Hedge)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-13/eagles-death-metal-frontman-says-guards-knew-about-paris-attacks-advance

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Then all hell breaks loose ....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/12194789/Brussels-police-shot-at-during-raid-linked-to-Paris-attacks.html
Brussels police shot at during raid linked to Paris attacks

Two suspects on the run after shoot out with Belgian security forces, who are still hunting suspects and associates of militants involved in the Islamist attacks on Nov. 13

• Two suspects injured and on the run
• Three policemen lightly wounded in shoot-out
• Raid on homes in Brussels linked to Paris attacks
 
Shots have been fired and a police officer was slightly injured during a raid on a house in Brussels linked to the Paris attacks.

Media reported the anti-terror raid took place in the Forest neighborhood which is close to Molenbeek, home of several people involved in the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris that killed 130 people.

"Police were fired at," said Eric Van Der Sypt, a spokesman for the federal prosecutor, adding that the search in the southern Forest district was "linked to the Paris attacks investigation".

Two suspects were on the run after the incident, according to local newspaper reports.



A witness in the rue de Dries told RTLInfo: "There is incessant gunfire and its still going. My husband is holed up in the kitchen. You never know. We are scared of stray bullets. It's still going."

Another said: "I heard policemen enter the street. An ambulance is there and emergency services are treating injured policemen. Now soldiers are coming into the houses. There are around 50 policemen. They are masked and are wearing bullet-proof vests. It's a barnum," she said.

A third said: "There are around 20 police cars. Armoured vehicles have just arrived. All the cops have hand guns. A helicopter is flying over Forest. All the neighbouring roads have been blocked off."

[TahoeBlue]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3495429/Imminent-terrorist-attack-Paris-foiled-police-arrest-three-men-woman-dawn-raid.html

Four terror suspects arrested in Paris after police claimed they were plotting an 'imminent attack'
Three men and a woman arrested in Paris and in nearby Seine-Saint-Denis
French security forces had files on the four suspects for their Islamist ties
Police also seized unused cartridge for an automatic rifle and computers
The four suspects have been questioned by intelligence officers tonight

By Julian Robinson for MailOnline
Published: 11:29 EST, 16 March 2016  | Updated: 13:45 EST, 16 March 2016

Four suspected terrorists were arrested in Paris today after police claimed they were plotting an 'imminent attack' on the French capital.

Three men and one woman were captured in the siege on the 18th arrondissement of the French capital and the nearby, rundown suburb of Saint Denis.

An AK-47 rifle, and electronic equipment including a USB stick and computer files, were found during the dawn raid.

French intelligence officers have been questioning the suspects at their headquarters in the city tonight. 

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Police later said the four suspects had been under surveillance on suspicion of a 'possible' attack, with one source adding: 'You can't at this stage talk about a plan of imminent attack.'

The arrests were carried out at dawn in two Paris districts, as well as Saint Denis, the scene of a massive raid after the November 13 Paris attacks.

TF1 reported that two French brothers of Turkish origin - identified as Aytac and Ercan B - were among the suspects.  Another Frenchman Youssef E., 28 has been identified as a suspect.

TF1 said he was a known Islamist and had already been sentenced to five years in prison in March 2014 after being arrested with two others as they tried to leave France to fight in Syria.

He was released from prison in October and had been under house arrest since February 29. There are reports that his companion was also arrested in the dawn raid.

It comes a day after a man suspected of having links to the Paris massacre in November was gunned down in a Brussels after a shoot-out with police.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3495429/Imminent-terrorist-attack-Paris-foiled-police-arrest-three-men-woman-dawn-raid.html#ixzz435zz4UP5
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/12197932/Fingerprints-of-Paris-attacks-fugitive-Salah-Abdeslam-found-in-raided-Brussels-flat.html
World's most wanted man Salah Abdeslam arrested and wounded in police shootout - live

Suspected Paris attack mastermind has been taken alive following shootout with Brussels police, according to French and Belgian authorities


• Paris attack suspect Salah Abdeslam 'arrested and wounded'
• Another unnamed suspect reportedly killed after shootout
• Abdeslam's fingerprints found in earlier Brussels raid
• Brussels suburb notorious as base for the terrorists
• Belgian immigration minister: "We got him."

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French television station RTL posted an image of the moment it says terror suspect Salah Abdeslam (inset) was arrested  Photo: RTL

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17:34 

Abdeslam arrest is 'amazing feat'

A former Belgian force special forces soldier has been discussing the news that Paris attack suspect Salah Abdeslam has been caught.

Speaking to BFM TV live, he said: "To be able to arrest him is quite an amazing feat.

"But whereas the other attackers blew themselves up in the past, this is the guy who refused to die in the attack and fled in his car while the others did. It looks like he doesn't want to die," he said.
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16:54 

Police received tip-off to Abdeslam's whereabouts
They then tracked several safe houses they believe he had used in the past. RTBF said they had been watching the one in rue des Quatre Vents for the past two days.
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16:38 
Hollande to issue statement on raid in Molenbeek



First images are emerging meanwhile of the scene at Molenbeek, where anti-terror police have surrounded the flat.
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[TahoeBlue]

{Muslim?} Security ALLOWED Jihadists into the concert :

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/bataclan-security-guards-were-warned-7529853
Bataclan security guards were 'warned of ISIS Paris attacks' in advance claims Eagles of Death Metals frontman

The frontman of Eagles of Death Metal has claimed guards at the Bataclan theatre in Paris knew that ISIS would launch its sickening terror attack.

Jesse Hughes claimed six guards did not show up for work on the night of the gig at the Paris venue.

And he even said he asked for one guard to be removed from backstage security because he was behaving oddly.

The American band were performing on stage when ISIS jihadists stormed in and killed 89 people and wounded 200.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3598079/Inquest-British-victim-Paris-attacks-begin.html
Bataclan massacre victim's ex-girlfriend tells how they 'played dead' as ISIS gunmen roamed the theatre before he died in her arms after being shot

    Nick Alexander, from Essex, was among 89 people killed in Bataclan attack
    He was selling merchandise and met up with ex-girlfriend Helen Wilson
    Pair were together when ISIS gunmen stormed the building and opened fire
    Inquest heard how they tried to 'play dead' before Mr Alexander was shot

By Stephanie Linning for MailOnline

Published: 05:26 EST, 19 May 2016 | Updated: 11:29 EST, 19 May 2016

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3598079/Inquest-British-victim-Paris-attacks-begin.html#ixzz4983MfPjw
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

[TahoeBlue]

Fast & Furious again back in the news! Gun ties to Paris shooting!
Paris Attack Guns Linked to Fast & Furious -  ERIC HOLDER Scam for which he and others have still not been held accountable. (This looks again like that indeed are aiding the jihadis, which many have always suspected when it was said that the CIA created ISIS and all their acronyms.)
http://www.infowars.com/paris-attack-guns-...o-fast-furious/


http://z4.invisionfree.com/The_Great_Deception/index.php?showtopic=9364

[TahoeBlue]

Suppressed news now comes out ? wow ...

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/07/15/french-lawmakers-told-bataclan-terrorists-tortured-disemboweled-victims.html
French lawmakers told Bataclan terrorists tortured, disemboweled victims
By  Louise Mensch 
 ·Published July 15, 2016

 French government committee has heard testimony, suppressed by the French government at the time and not published online until this week, that the killers in the Bataclan tortured their victims on the second floor of the club.

The chief police witness in Parliament said that an investigating officer, tears streaming down his face, rushed out of the Bataclan and vomited in front of him just after seeing the disfigured bodies.

According to this testimony, Wahhabist killers apparently gouged out eyes, castrated victims, and shoved their testicles in their mouths. They may also have disemboweled some poor souls. Women were stabbed in the genitals – and the torture was, victims told police, filmed for Daesh or Islamic State propaganda. For that reason, medics did not release the bodies of torture victims to the families, investigators said.

But prosecutors claimed these reports of torture were “a rumor” on the grounds that sharp knives were not found at the scene. They also claimed that maybe shrapnel had caused the injuries.
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Investigator: After the assault, we were with colleagues at the passage Saint-Pierre Amelot when I saw weeping from one of our colleagues who came outside  to vomit. He told us what he had seen