[ April 18, 2024 ]
“Attack under way at the French Embassy and French Institute. Stay hidden where you are.”
Terror attack on French embassy and army HQ – gunmen storm buildings and explosions heard
A TERROR attack was launched on a French embassy and army headquarters, with witnesses reporting hearing gunfire, men storming a building and a huge explosion that send plumes of smoke billowing into the sky. By Mark Chandler, The Express, Mar 2, 2018People said armed men got out of a car and began opening fire in the Burkina Faso capital, Ouagadougou, this morning. The city mayor said this afternoon the incident was a terror attack carried out by “jihadists”.
Police said later they had killed four Islamist gunmen, and the situation had been brought under control.
Story continues below advertisementFrance’s embassy confirmed in a statement it was under attack along with a cultural centre and the army headquarters.
In a post on Facebook, it said: “Attack under way at the French Embassy and French Institute. Stay hidden where you are.”
A witness said smaller explosions came from the army headquarters after a first larger blast, masked gunmen had stormed in and security forces were converging on the scene.Pictures from the scene showed windows blown out by the blasts and cars covered in debris as smoke filled the air.Police said security units were deployed to the scene and urged people to stay away from that area.The US Embassy tweeted: “@Usembassyouaga has received reports of gunfire in downtown Ouagadougou.
An attack was launched in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
“Avoid the area of downtown Ouagadougou. Seek secure shelter. Monitor local media for updates.“Check back here for more updates from the embassy.”France’s ambassador to West Africa’s Sahel region described the incident as a terror attack.Jean-Marc Châtaigner said: “Terrorist attack this morning in Ougadougou, Burkina Faso: solidarity with colleagues and Burkinabe friends.” https://twitter.com/kambale/status/969522447820185601 France’s President Emmanuel Macron is being kept up to date with events in the Burkina Faso capital after gunmen launched an attack in the centre of the city in the vicinity of the French Embassy, the Elysee Palace said.The Elysee statement urged French nationals to follow alerts from the embassy.Burkina Faso, like other countries in West Africa, has been targeted sporadically by jihadist groups operating across Africa’s Sahel region.Suspected jihadists killed at least 18 people last August during a raid on a restaurant in Ouagadougou and militants have targeted be security forces along its remote northern border region with Mali.Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) claimed responsibility for an attack on a restaurant and hotel in Ouagadougou in January 2016 in which 30 people were killed.Five regional countries launched a new taskforce last year to tackle Islamist militants in the zone, to which international donors have committed a half-billion dollars.
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33 Comments
6 years ago
France media and officials CANNOT post any photos of jihad attacks against their embassy. They will be arrested for inciting hatred.
6 years ago
Reply to
Phil McDonald
LOL ! Agree. its pathetic. They cannot save their country from jihadis and they go try to send troops to another islamic hellhole .
And the pro-jihadi pope wants xians to accept more such “immigrants” https://tinyurl.com/ydy9xkxs
They are more like savages not “poor” refugees or real immigrants.
6 years ago
Africa is a lost continent. Lost to backwardness, corruption, violence, superstition, and now to Islam. Its rich resources wasted. Barely a democracy exists.
Despite that, with no concept of, or interest in, birth control, its population will double by 2050. The fertility rate for a European woman is 1.58. In Niger, for example, it’s a staggering 7.57.
The challenge for the civilised world is to keep its inhabitants out: they have already ruined their own countries, and will do the same to those of the civilised world if mass Third World immigration continues. Another challenge for all thinking people is to put an end forever to the catastrophic fantasies and policies of multiculturalism and “diversity” already dragging our own countries towards the precipice.
6 years ago
Reply to
Rosie Barnes
Soooo very well said! This should be taught in every school class!
6 years ago
Reply to
Rosie Barnes
The only thing worse than a drowning is a double drowning. A double drowning is what happens when the mass immigration from africa and the ME hits the rest of the world. This is cold to say but it must be said.
6 years ago
Reply to
billy roche
You’re right. Add to the potential for catastrophe from Africa the potential of even worse from the Middle East and Islamic hellholes like Pakistan and Afghanistan in South-East Asia, and the civilised world is facing the gravest threat to its existence it has ever known. But for the politically correct, multicultural brigade the backward, violent cultures of the Muslim world and black Africa can do no wrong. Any criticism of their obvious failings is condemned as racist or Islamophobic. Politicians like Obama and Trudeau, and similar PC/multikuti/diversity supporters, are the dangerous ones in our societies.
6 years ago
Reply to
Rosie Barnes
Pakkyland is in the subcontinent …. NOT Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, etc.). Can’t really call afgannyland as being in Southeast Asia, either, as it’s in south central Asia. Not trying to pick bones, but .. no sense insulting Myanmar .. the only nation that knows how to deal with those vile creatures called moslems.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
You’re right, AM! I stand corrected. I meant South Asia, not South-East…
6 years ago
Reply to
Rosie Barnes
It’s just that I know some Thais … and they’re a pretty nice sort. I’ve known many moslems .. NONE (special emphasis added) of them are anything close to human beings. Glad that I don’t live in the UK, where pakky moslem filth, from pakkyland … and bangers from bangerdouche are called “Asians”.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
Isn’t Myanmar called Burma again now? Maybe someone could write a song about it.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
No. It used to be called Burma. The name officially changed from the Union of Burma to the Union of Myanmar, in 1989. You can apply for an “eVisa” here: https://evisa.moip.gov.mm/
6 years ago
Reply to
Rosie Barnes
You and most Americans are confused of democracy, also called mobocracy. The founding in Ancient Greece was by the tyrants that practiced majority rule among themselves while the demotic citizens elected volunteers by lot called sortition, with VoterID pinakia and a lottery machine kloterion.
Read Aristotle Politics IV (Bekker No.) 1294be
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
Democracy is hardly a form of government, it is a method of electing the selected to rule by their form of government.
6 years ago
Reply to
Nightmare
Democracy is dictatorship by rich as opposed to Communism which is dictatorship by poor. Same shiiiiit different name.
6 years ago
Reply to
JoseMarino
In Athens it would take a whole lot of bribery to create a dictatorship of the rich because anyone who served as a Hoplite could vote DIRECTLY for any proposed laws/actions. It was the citizenry of Athens themselves who voted to go to war against Persia.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
Sortition of volunteers, much like jury pool selection.
6 years ago
Reply to
Nightmare
No one was “elected” in Athens. Land owners (who had served in the Athenian army/navy) voted directly on all measures/laws/propositions. You’re confusing a republic w/a democracy.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
No, you are confusing what you have received with what Aristotle wrote. Again, Bekker 1294be
6 years ago
Just another day in muslim paradise.
6 years ago
Watch out France, this is coming up for you too. They are already attacking your policemen on a large scale, and they will soon attack your military too as soon as they reach sufficient high numbers to do that. But maybe attacking your military in France won´t be even necessary, as your military forces are already well undermined with muzzie scum that only waits to turn their weapons against you when the time has come.
6 years ago
I remember in the early 1960s as a child sending money to Africa and these parasites are still receiving aid.
6 years ago
Reply to
jkarna
By the billions, annually, from OUR tax dollars, not being asked. Pakistan has money for nuclear arms, for support and training of terrorists; but is Still getting OUR AID MONEY.
6 years ago
Surprise, surprise,
… to warlord 40/2 marching orders for EVERY Muslim (beside taqiyyah’deceit’ 3/28)
https://quran.com/2/216 -> ‘So let those “fight (to kill”, Qatel) in the cause of Allah who sell the life of this world for the Hereafter. …’‘ https://quran.com/4/74-76 https://quran.com/4/95 https://quran.com/8/12-17 https://quran.com/8/39 https://quran.com/9/29
… to win ‘Paradise’ (rational for suicide:) https://quran.com/9/111 http://sunnah.com/bukhari/56/33-35 https://www.instagram.com/p/Bd8Vz_LHm_T/
6 years ago
Islam and blacks….any questions?
6 years ago
What are you on about, Burkina Faso used to be Upper Volta in the west of Africa. Above Ghana and Nigeria. Ms Geller stated clearly that it is in the west of hell hole of Africa.
6 years ago
How ANY (special emphasis added) reader could have drawn a conclusion that the action was anywhere in the United States of America .. is well beyond the ken of a rational mind.
6 years ago
The French Embecile use Fakebook to post messages??? YOU SUCK!!
6 years ago
What, NO gratitude to the French. Who would have thunk it?
6 years ago
AIDS came from Africa, EBOLA came from Africa and HUSSEIN OBAMA came from Africa. Never something good came out of shithole continent of Africa.
6 years ago
Years ago, around early 1980s I was in Sweden, remembering reading a long article
about Africa and how it was falling down into “a Black Hole” because of the poverty,
illiteracy, AIDS, wars, mass-killings of entire villagers, warmongering dictators.
Now with the increase of islam the misery will triple and people will die from additional
misery that comes with this terroristic, murderous political ideology. Due to the
primitive state of many African countries they are ripe for being taken over by islam.
