France prevents islamic terrorist attack

[Melech 9,900]

"Security forces prevented an attack on French military installations this week with the arrest of four people with links to jailed jihadists, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Wednesday.

The news of the arrests followed a statement from French President François Hollande, who said terrorist attacks had been foiled in recent days.

"This week, we stopped terrorist attacks which could have taken place," Hollande said on a visit to the French coastal city of Marseille.

The four suspects were aged between 16 and 23 and arrested in different places around France, Cazeneuve said. One was a former member of the navy.

A source close to the investigation into the thwarted attack, who asked to remain anonymous, said the four people arrested had been planning to film the decapitation of a member of the military in the south of France.

One of the four suspects, who was identified as the mastermind, had been planning to travel to jihadist-controlled areas of war-torn Syria, Cazeneuve added in his statement.

He said their leader was in contact with known French jihadists who are currently in prison.

The country is on high security alert after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January, in which 17 people were killed in the Paris area, and after an incident in June in which a suspected Islamist radical beheaded his boss and tried to blow up a US-owned industrial gas plant in the suburbs of Lyon.

Paris has tightened security around sensitive sites such as factories, calling for "maximum vigilance".

But experts warned it was extremely difficult to defend against attacks on such sensitive sites.

"There is no such thing as zero risk," Philippe Prudhon, a technical expert at the UIC union of chemical industries, told AFP.

"If someone really wants to cause harm, it will be difficult to stop him or her.”

(FRANCE 24 with AFP, REUTERS)

http://www.france24.com/en/20150715-france-foils-terrorist-attacks-military-sites

 

Scary times we live in. Like an attack could happen anytime and that makes me uncomfortable. Suddenly Europe doesn't feel that safe anymore, at least when you live in a large city.

[Didymus 34,380]

So young..

It's amazing how many of these things are prevented

[Phoenix 17,395]

16-23? Tragic.

And I agree about the last part, Europe felt kinda safe 5/6 years ago compared to the rest of the world, but nowadays it's all so scary and it doesn't feel the same anymore.

[Melech 9,900]

16-23? Tragic.

And I agree about the last part, Europe felt kinda safe 5/6 years ago compared to the rest of the world, but nowadays it's all so scary and it doesn't feel the same anymore.

I meant uncomfortable btw  

But yeah I agree. 

[SychosSoChic 9,995]

But when so many of the terrorists are in fact people from the countries being targeted, what does this say about our generation and our thoughts on western society and our own governments...

[Melech 9,900]

But when so many of the terrorists are in fact people from the countries being targeted, what does this say about our generation and our thoughts on western society and our own governments...

I don't how it is in other European states but in Germany a high percentage are ethnic Europeans 

[SychosSoChic 9,995]

I don't how it is in other European states but in Germany a high percentage are ethnic Europeans 

I'm just trying to figure out why our generation is so attracted to the idea of terrorism.

[Melech 9,900]

I'm just trying to figure out why our generation is so attracted to the idea of terrorism.

I read because we have so many opportunities of who we can be that overstrains some of us. Back in the days people raised with specific traditntal norms etc and couldn't chose what they want to be. A lot get because of this problems with identity and search other solutions which are sometimes radical like IS. 

[Dolev 867]

But when so many of the terrorists are in fact people from the countries being targeted, what does this say about our generation and our thoughts on western society and our own governments...

this has more to do with a specific religion rather than being a citizen of some certain country

[Noah X 5,250]

I read because we have so many opportunities of who we can be that overstrains some of us. Back in the days people raised with specific traditntal norms etc and couldn't chose what they want to be. A lot get because of this problems with identity and search other solutions which are sometimes radical like IS. 

are you simon from orange county california

[Melech 9,900]

are you simon from orange county california

No, I'm from Europe

 

[Hurem 17,801]

So young, jfc... How do they brainwash these young people? 

[Nicole 1,809]

So young, jfc... How do they brainwash these young people? 

islamophobia by the government and society is definitely a playing factor. When you spend your whole life being discriminated, assumed to be criminals, oppressed etc - and a group suddenly turns to you and say "hey we WANT you, unlike your neighbours".- people are going to take up the offer - not everyone, but people will. Oppression is the breeding ground for domestic terrorism - whether it's based on political/religious views or just a grown pure hate. Yes, the concept of free will will be argued as will the argument that people aren't "dumb" enough to willingly join a terrorist group but to deny that the treatment of groups in society contributes to the feeling of a need to join is plain ignorant and obviously the government (Australia anyway) refuses to acknowledge that.

[Melech 9,900]

islamophobia by the government and society is definitely a playing factor. When you spend your whole life being discriminated, assumed to be criminals, oppressed etc - and a group suddenly turns to you and say "hey we WANT you, unlike your neighbours".- people are going to take up the offer - not everyone, but people will. Oppression is the breeding ground for domestic terrorism - whether it's based on political/religious views or just a grown pure hate. Yes, the concept of free will will be argued as will the argument that people aren't "dumb" enough to willingly join a terrorist group but to deny that the treatment of groups in society contributes to the feeling of a need to join is plain ignorant and obviously the government (Australia anyway) refuses to acknowledge that.

That's not true. Jewish and Romani people are in Europe way more discriminated than Muslims and none of either group do nearly weekly trerrorist attacks. 

Also when you look at Islamic countries and how radical they are. 

[Nicole 1,809]

That's not true. Jewish and Romani people are in Europe way more discriminated than Muslims and none of either group do nearly weekly trerrorist attacks. 

Also when you look at Islamic countries and how radical they are. 

Sorry my comment is more relevant to the situation ain Australia at the moment.