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Nimes Feria terror: Driver shouting ‘allahu akbar’ ploughs into crowd in south France
EXPRESS.co.uk ^ | PUBLISHED: 10:38, Fri, Sep 14, 2018 | UPDATED: 15:16, Fri, Sep 14, 2018 | CARLY READ

Posted on 09/14/2018 8:07:41 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

POLICE in France have arrested a man on suspicion of attempted murder after he ploughed his car into a crowd while shouting “Allah Akbar”.

The 32-year-old suspect mowed down two victims who have been rushed to hospital following the shock incident at 1am in Nimes, southern France, where bystanders had gathered in preparation for the region’s annual grape harvesting festival.

The man was reported to have sped the car towards a crowd of 50 people outside the L’Instant T bar.

Witnesses said the man had tried to flee the scene but had been stopped by bystanders before being arrested by police at 1.30am.

The victims had been standing behind barriers when the car hit them.

They were rushed to a nearby hospital in a stable condition having suffered injuries to their lower limbs.

A source told French publication Midi Libre the man was not known to police for suspected radicalisation.

The region’s public prosecutor Eric Maurel said the suspect was in a state of mental confusion” during his arrest, which followed him being roughed up by the crowd of witnesses who tried to restrain him.


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Definitely not terrorism, and I don't want any of you deplorables jumping to any conclusions.
1 posted on 09/14/2018 8:07:41 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What could be the motivation? Radical Methodists again?


2 posted on 09/14/2018 8:09:18 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Gee, I wonder WHAT could have been his motive. Hmmmmm. Perhaps all he needed was a hug and some dole cash.


3 posted on 09/14/2018 8:09:50 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Muslim does love his rape and mass murder. The Muslim does what the Muslim is good at.


4 posted on 09/14/2018 8:10:22 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Of course it’s not terrorism. It says right in the article he was “in a state of mental confusion”. Another mentally ill man failed by the system. By us all, indeed.


5 posted on 09/14/2018 8:10:45 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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To: SERKIT

They will work hard on finding a motive. At this point, no one knows why!

But, why was the perpetrator only “stopped” by by-standers?


6 posted on 09/14/2018 8:11:01 AM PDT by oldplayer
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Absolutely not terrorism. The motive is a mystery, too.


7 posted on 09/14/2018 8:11:56 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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It’s OK ,that’s what they do


8 posted on 09/14/2018 8:14:29 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Aloha Snackbar strikes again.


9 posted on 09/14/2018 8:16:59 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; SJackson; SunkenCiv

Darn that workplace violence again!
Oh, wait. The guy wasn’t employed. Sorry, just another Amish traffic accident.


10 posted on 09/14/2018 8:17:33 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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>> the suspect was in a state of mental confusion” during his arrest, which followed him being roughed up by the crowd of witnesses who tried to restrain him.

Hmmmm - we might have a potential solution to the problem here, but first, let’s work on quantifying and perfecting the “roughed up” part.


11 posted on 09/14/2018 8:18:02 AM PDT by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Remember, the Ministry of Propaganda says that Allahu Akbar means “this has nothing to do with Islam”.


12 posted on 09/14/2018 8:18:48 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: butlerweave

Wow, yet another rare mere coincidence


13 posted on 09/14/2018 8:21:37 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/articles/opinion-polls.aspx#911

We need to be reminded of what the muslims think


14 posted on 09/14/2018 8:24:27 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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Aloha Snackbar


15 posted on 09/14/2018 8:24:49 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Definitely not terrorism, and I don’t want any of you deplorables jumping to any conclusions.


It was a grape-harvest festival. What do the French do with grapes? They make wine. He was just holding up the honor of Islam’s prohibition against alcohol. Perfectly within his religious rights.


16 posted on 09/14/2018 8:26:06 AM PDT by hanamizu
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Not a moslem. No. Not. Can’t be - islam is the Religion of Peace.


17 posted on 09/14/2018 8:35:09 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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“which followed him being roughed up by the crowd of witnesses who tried to restrain him.”

They should have torn him limb from limb.

L


18 posted on 09/14/2018 8:37:35 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Some sort of which is better, beer -vs- wine dispute?


19 posted on 09/14/2018 8:41:59 AM PDT by fso301
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Sounds like crowd beat the living daylights out of this murdering basturd

The French are maybe getting some sense, nah!


20 posted on 09/14/2018 8:42:30 AM PDT by Gasshog ( Fight climate change - Try beating the air and scream at the sky)
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