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Ex-teacher seizes French students
BBC News ^ | 03/09/06

Posted on 03/09/2006 8:34:54 AM PST by sageb1

A former teacher has taken 18 students, a teacher and a teaching assistant hostage at a school in France.

Breaking: More at url.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: france; hostages; students; teacher
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To: Reaganesque

I was just going to look it up myself. I was pretty sure it was a substitute teacher though.


21 posted on 03/09/2006 8:58:38 AM PST by MotleyGirl70 (Most cats are democrats - did you ever meet a creature with such an inborn sense of entitlement?)
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To: aculeus
"BBC articles need not be excerpted."

Thank you. I wasn't sure and I use the "when in doubt" rule. :)

22 posted on 03/09/2006 8:59:40 AM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: hattend

An adherent of TROP?


23 posted on 03/09/2006 9:04:22 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Sloth
The man has made no demands
... but the nation has surrendered just to be safe.

LoL!

24 posted on 03/09/2006 9:05:00 AM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: sageb1; All

I got question two question

One is this guy Muslum

Other one is has French surrender YET????


25 posted on 03/09/2006 9:08:24 AM PST by SevenofNine (I'd rather hunt with Dick Cheney than ride with Ted Kennedy)
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To: michigander
An unemployed teacher

This guy has no class.

26 posted on 03/09/2006 9:09:00 AM PST by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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To: MotleyGirl70
As the old saying goes: "Two countries, divided by a common language."
27 posted on 03/09/2006 9:09:20 AM PST by Reaganesque
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To: All
There is a great Japanese movie called "Battle Royal" where this happens. A poorly behaved class of 8th graders is jacked by their former teacher and placed on an island. They are forced to kill one another and the last one standing is aloud to leave. It is all filmed for a reality show and it becomes a huge hit with Japanese adults. Great movie!
28 posted on 03/09/2006 9:13:38 AM PST by The Toll
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To: Reaganesque

A supply teacher is what the Brits call a substitute teacher. (I had to look it up...)

Thanks I was sitting here scratching my head.


29 posted on 03/09/2006 9:17:27 AM PST by Independentamerican2
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To: Reaganesque

A supply teacher is what the Brits call a substitute teacher. (I had to look it up...)

Thanks I was sitting here scratching my head.


30 posted on 03/09/2006 9:17:30 AM PST by Independentamerican2
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To: The Toll

In the same vein as "Lord of the Flies?"


31 posted on 03/09/2006 9:26:47 AM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: sageb1

GIGN (Special Forces) are en route t5o the school?


32 posted on 03/09/2006 9:31:41 AM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: sageb1

This SP group dealt in the past with Islamic terrorists...per FNC report.


33 posted on 03/09/2006 9:32:35 AM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: sageb1
Thank you. I wasn't sure and I use the "when in doubt" rule. :)

No problem. Their bias stinks but they put up a comprehensive site and don't complain when we post.

34 posted on 03/09/2006 9:38:57 AM PST by aculeus
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To: steve-b
An unemployed teacher

This guy has no class.

Go to your room!

35 posted on 03/09/2006 9:45:12 AM PST by aculeus
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To: ExSoldier

LOLOL!!!


36 posted on 03/09/2006 9:46:01 AM PST by gimme1ibertee
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To: sageb1
Frenchman with a gun? Isn't that a contradiction?

Hey Pierre, the end with hole in it goes toward the hostages. Better yet, the end with the hole in it goes toward you!
37 posted on 03/09/2006 9:46:09 AM PST by tucker93
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To: tucker93
Frenchman with a gun? Isn't that a contradiction?
Hey Pierre, the end with hole in it goes toward the hostages. Better yet, the end with the hole in it goes toward you!

No, no, no -- the end with the hole goes toward the floor, in case the gun goes off when you drop it to free your hand for holding the white flag.

38 posted on 03/09/2006 9:54:05 AM PST by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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To: michigander

LE MANS, France - A former teacher armed with a handgun and reportedly suffering from depression took 23 hostages Thursday, most of them students, in a high school classroom before surrendering, police said.

The 33-year-old one-time teacher turned himself in, after holding the hostages captive throughout the afternoon and early evening, police and local officials said. Details of the surrender were not immediately available


39 posted on 03/09/2006 11:20:40 AM PST by hattend (Keep Drinking Until Nagin Makes Sense)
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To: steve-b

Now that he has surrendered watch this story drop off the radar screen, news-wise, and his name will never be released.


40 posted on 03/09/2006 11:21:36 AM PST by hattend (Keep Drinking Until Nagin Makes Sense)
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