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French soldier shoots 17 in hostage-taking exercise
afp/google ^ | 6-30-08 | afp

Posted on 06/30/2008 3:23:40 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB

CARCASSONNE, France (AFP) — President Nicolas Sarkozy promised swift and severe punishment Monday after a soldier shot and wounded 17 people, including a three-year-old boy and both his parents, at an open day at an army barracks.

The sergeant opened up with an assault rifle, firing live rounds instead of blanks into a crowd of hundreds of visitors watching a hostage-taking exercise Sunday at the base near the southwestern city of Carcassonne.

A man who witnessed the shooting told AFP that "suddenly, people were falling, we thought it was part of the exercise, and then we saw blood."

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1 posted on 06/30/2008 3:23:40 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
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To: WOBBLY BOB

I’m with the other commenters on the other threads: there’s something else going on here.


2 posted on 06/30/2008 3:26:36 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

other threads? I guess my title search was fruitless.

he took a ‘take-no-prisoners’ approach.


3 posted on 06/30/2008 3:28:17 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (Conservatives are to McCain what Charlie Brown is to Lucy.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

And here we have the first casualties of the French Military since Napoleon.

H


4 posted on 06/30/2008 3:28:56 PM PDT by SnakeDoctor (Jack Bauer for President '08 -- All the world's terrorists hate him. Sounds like a fair fight.)
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To: 1rudeboy
Definitely something going on here.

1- Soldiers know live ammo from blanks.
2- Officers ensure soldiers have blanks.
3- Officers check again to make sure soldiers have blanks.
4- No blank firing adapter.
5- You don't point at the crowd even with blanks.

5 posted on 06/30/2008 3:29:30 PM PDT by Sender (Never lose your ignorance; you can never regain it!)
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To: Hemorrhage
And here we have the first casualties of the French Military since Napoleon.

Several million Germans from World War I would be to differ.

6 posted on 06/30/2008 3:31:42 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Too bad that the only blood this French weapon will shed is of its own citizens.


7 posted on 06/30/2008 3:33:56 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Maybe a “French” muslim officer?


8 posted on 06/30/2008 3:34:02 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: Strategerist

>> Several million Germans from World War I would be to differ.

It was a joke. Rumor has it, no enemy combatant has ever seen the front of a French military uniform.

H


9 posted on 06/30/2008 3:34:17 PM PDT by SnakeDoctor (Jack Bauer for President '08 -- All the world's terrorists hate him. Sounds like a fair fight.)
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To: Hemorrhage

It might have been a joke, but it was poor because there was no element of truth to it.


10 posted on 06/30/2008 3:38:54 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Strategerist

Million? Highly doubtful. Probably more died from ambushes by the French Resistance than from the French Army, which did not exist from mid 1040 until near the end of WWII.


11 posted on 06/30/2008 3:40:47 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

It’s amazing that they even had bullets. All you really need for a French military exercise is a white flag...

Guns, tanks, planes, bullets? Why would they waste their money on those things. Even when they fight, they send foreigners to do it for them.


12 posted on 06/30/2008 3:43:33 PM PDT by jerod (They were pro-abortion, for gun control & wanted a cleaner environment at all cost - The NAZI party)
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To: Sender
The whole thing was criminal negligence in proceedure

I've taken part in firearms training involving "sim-munitions" fired from real guns. Before entering the training area, each person was checked at a gateway area for ammo, by pat down and by metal detector. His firearm was checked by a line of three inspectors, he would pass through the gate, be handed his handgun and a mag of simunition (which was loaded under the supervision of three sets of eyes)

Instructor has never had an accident

13 posted on 06/30/2008 3:44:37 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell)
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To: jerod

With the exception of Afghanistan, but why bother oneself with mere facts?


14 posted on 06/30/2008 3:46:19 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: WOBBLY BOB
I just got a kick out of listening to a lib coworker talk about his trip to France last week. He knows how much better we have it here.
15 posted on 06/30/2008 3:46:51 PM PDT by lormand ("The Planet is fine, the people are $%#ed up" - George Carlin)
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To: Hemorrhage
My French wifes great grandfather never saw his son because he was killed at Verdun; his son, her grandfather had a son but was taken as slave labor in WWII and did not see his son for 6 years; your jokes and rumors are not too funny.
16 posted on 06/30/2008 3:47:21 PM PDT by SF Republican
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Count off:

Shooting demo uses real bullets, injures 16 (in France)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038408/posts

French Marines Shoot Children In Bungled Hostage Display
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038365/posts

Sixteen hurt at French army show
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038241/posts

French soldier shoots 17 in hostage-taking exercise
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038821/posts


17 posted on 06/30/2008 3:50:27 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Blood of Tyrants; Strategerist

Don’t know where you studied history, but World War I and World War II were different wars.


18 posted on 06/30/2008 3:52:56 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Since when have the French loaded their weapons with “real” bullets?


19 posted on 06/30/2008 3:53:49 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (The road to hell is paved with the stones of pragmatism.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

“Maybe a “French” muslim officer?”

This is the third time that I have seen this article posted, but still no name of the shooter.


20 posted on 06/30/2008 4:00:36 PM PDT by 353FMG (What marxism and fascism could not destroy, liberalism did.)
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