Amsterdam - Paris Attack

Not a nightmare, impossible.

First impression: I wonder if the gunman was not too bright. Killed no one, and why a train? It is hard to move, hard to get good shots, cant get off....AK47, seriously? I dont know much about guns but that seems a poor choice

In any case cool that Americans get to play hero. And one was black, that is always a plus.

ad 1: a UK-citizen was involved as well as a third US-Americain (Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos and the student Anthony Sadler are the names of the US-citizens, Chris Norman is the UK-citizen)
They got a medal from the town of Arras already - all the four will meet President Hollande soon as well.


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ad 2: we got that discussion here, when we had those incidents in trains a couple of years ago. I doubt that it will and can work

It's a bit confused right now who did what but in any case, very well done, brilliant, heroic and all. We need to see more of this type of things.

Send the legion etrangere pulverize ISIS in Syria, if you ask me. The more time these assholes are allowed to live and recruit, the harder it'll be to root out the cancer.

The president of the SNCF (société nationale des chemins de fer) agrees with you:

"Trains in France move 20 times more passengers than planes. You see what measures are put in place at airports? We'd need 20 times that in railway stations. It's just not possible."

He wants more cops in trains and 'random' passenger searches.

The Briton and the three Americans are to be awarded the Légion d’honneur by president Hollande today for their roles in stopping the suspected terrorist attack.