Posted on 06/15/2014 8:13:32 AM PDT by Nachum
As France continues to grapple with growing violent anti-Semitism alarming reports suggest a potentially deadly terrorist attack on a Paris synagogue in broad daylight was thwarted at the very last minute on Saturday.
According to French-language JSS News, a pair of unidentified attackers approached the synagogue, located in the French capital's 20th District, armed with an AK-47 assault rifle and a handgun. According to reports they began aiming their guns at bystanders and the building itself and pretended to open fire, but fled the scene when they saw armed French police officers guarding the synagogue.
Reports say they escaped on a scooter.
No shots were fired, and the incident took place at a time when few worshippers were in the building, but the shocking incident has left the local Jewish community extremely shaken.
The National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism issued a strong statement condemning the incident "with the greatest strength".
It comes as France prepares to extradite Mehdi Nemmouche, a French-Algerian Islamist suspected of carrying out the deadly anti-Semitic shooting at the Jewish Museum in the Belgian capital Brussels.
The suspected terrorist spent over a year fighting in Syria withing the ranks of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) one of the most brutal Islamist groups involved in that country's civil war and which in recent days has seized vast swathes of Iraqi territory, including the country's second city Mosul.
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WHAT! Armed persons prevented an attack? Paging shannontwats. Paging shannontwats.
The suspected terrorist spent over a year fighting in Syria withing the ranks of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) one of the most brutal Islamist groups involved in that country's civil war and which in recent days has seized vast swathes of Iraqi territory, including the country's second city Mosul.
“...a pair of unidentified attackers...”
Uh-huh.
Mormans. Obviously.
Sorry folks, but there is a serious smell to this, terrorists that are in position weapons out and aimed and they pretend to open fire? I know the Jews are under attack and suffering in France, but either these are two of the most inept terrorists or something else is going on.
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