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Paris explosion: Massive blast hits French capital as witness claim ‘destruction for blocks’
The Sun UK ^ | 12 Jan 2019 | Gemma Mullin

Posted on 01/12/2019 1:02:48 AM PST by blueplum

Pictures shared on social media show fire engines swarmed the area with reports a number of people have been injured

MULTIPLE people are reported to have been injured after a massive explosion rocked Paris this morning.

Police confirmed a blast had taken place on Saturday morning on Rue de Treviso the 9th district of the French capital.

The cause of the explosion is not yet known, however there are reports that it was due to a gas leak in a bakery.

(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catastrophe; france; paris; yellowvest
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1 posted on 01/12/2019 1:02:48 AM PST by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Looking like a classic gas leak.


2 posted on 01/12/2019 1:08:03 AM PST by Cementjungle
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To: blueplum

Video from a guy on scene just after it happened and ahead of emergency crews arrive.

https://youtu.be/qFREQO1J_ZM


3 posted on 01/12/2019 1:26:41 AM PST by gunsequalfreedom
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To: Cementjungle

Makes you wonder though.


4 posted on 01/12/2019 1:36:42 AM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of today be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: blueplum

A mass influx of people of the religion of peace, many with terrorist links, pouring into a major European city! What could possibly go wrong?


5 posted on 01/12/2019 1:39:13 AM PST by dowcaet
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To: dowcaet

Yeah, that religion of peace thingy. ...my thoughts too.

The yellow vest folks, not so much.
Maybe true. Just gas.


6 posted on 01/12/2019 1:49:41 AM PST by redshawk (0pansy is a Liar and Hates.........he just hates!)
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To: All

One of the last things I think of after an explosion in Paris is a classic gas leak. I go first terrorism.


7 posted on 01/12/2019 2:01:19 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: Cementjungle

quite a concussion blast - glass 2 blocks away and car flipped? big bakery


8 posted on 01/12/2019 2:07:52 AM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

thanks, guns!


9 posted on 01/12/2019 2:08:23 AM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: blueplum

Macron needed his own Reichstag fire and now he got one. Yellow Vests may now start boarding the nearest available boxcar.


10 posted on 01/12/2019 2:10:43 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

This guy’s descriptions, in breathless, hyper emotional English, do not match what his very own video is showing, either in terms of the damage or of the reaction and behavior of the people on the scene. And the firetrucks and emergency vehicles, lights flashing, are visible at the scene before he gets there; he heads for the scene by following their lights. He walks down the block towards the fire, lingers a few moments taking his video, and turns around walks away (possibly because of the person or persons, a fire fighter?, yelling “A BAS!” repeatedly at him and other gawkers - in this context that would mean something like “GET BACK!”). The police do arrive after he has wandered down the block and back, and it looks like the first thing they do is try to move persons away from street with the fire and most of the broken windows.


11 posted on 01/12/2019 2:20:41 AM PST by VietVet
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To: Joe 6-pack

you think like i do


12 posted on 01/12/2019 2:20:56 AM PST by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: DarthVader

Makes you wonder though.
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Gov’t false flag? Remember Reichstag.


13 posted on 01/12/2019 2:58:43 AM PST by iontheball
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did not france merge its military with germany
just yesterday.

this is germany’s NEW FF to destroy democracy
starting with its little toad: france.


14 posted on 01/12/2019 3:16:01 AM PST by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: Cementjungle

I’d say it would depend on who owned the bakery, who was living above it. Might also have been an occupant stealing nat gas.


15 posted on 01/12/2019 3:20:58 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: JonPreston

If memory serves the 9th arondissment is heavily populated with Muslim migrants


16 posted on 01/12/2019 3:24:40 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: blueplum

Wild ass guess - gas leak then explosion. It is a bakery after all.

Don’t think it is terrorism (what is the point of blowing up a bakery?)

Nor do I think it is a false flag (again, a bakery).

If it was terrorism or a false flag then a police station or a school would have been a better target.

But it too little information to make anything but a wild ass guess, and since this is FREE REPUBLIC home of the wild ass guesses I thought I would add my own /s


17 posted on 01/12/2019 3:34:06 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

Wow - thanks for the video. Such a beautiful city but the NE section has so many muslims, when I first saw the report I was worried. Most of the issues they have including car burnings are in the section NE of Sacre-Couere De Montmarte. So any problems in that area, the ferals are always something to consider.


18 posted on 01/12/2019 4:04:53 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: mewzilla

That was my first thought, an illegal gas tap. (second thought actually)


19 posted on 01/12/2019 4:09:10 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: redshawk

>> Just gas. <<

Hollandaise sauce will do that to you.


20 posted on 01/12/2019 4:16:56 AM PST by dangus ("The floor of Hell is paved with the skulls of bishops" -- St. Athanasius)
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