Emailed in by MBK from The Times:
A teenage girl was killed and four people were seriously injured when a man drove a car on to the terrace of a pizza restaurant near Paris last night.
Police said that it was a deliberate act but they did not suspect terrorism, adding that they believed the man was under the influence of drugs…
The driver of the grey BMW, a 32-year-old French national, was arrested at the scene in Sept-Sorts, 40 miles east of Paris… He told police he had weapons in the car, according to the radio station RTL.
Eric de Valroger, deputy regional prosecutor, said it was “highly probable” the driver was on drugs and deliberately rammed the car into those at the restaurant.
UPDATE Surprise, surprise, it appears that the driver was just a complete arsehole, rather than one with religious motives.
What have we wrought in the UK?
2 hours ago
6 comments:
Why have you flagged this as "Islamism"?
Peter Hitchens on his blog points out that significant terrorist attacks such as at Charlottesville were carried out by people with mental illness. He traces the problem in the UK to the "Water tower" speech by Enoch Powell in 1961 which led to the virtual abolition of the concept of "asylum" for vulnerable people and its replacement with care in the community,( when there isn't any meaningful community).Whole political movements are taking their cues from the actions of people who are not in their right minds and whose relatives are besides themselves trying to get them proper care.
plus de CHANTIX® ?
(and before anyone takes offence that wasn't meant as a joke).
Islamic terrorism is not mutually exclusive with drug taking.
Mental illness is not mutually exclusive with being religious.
People can be religious, mentally ill AND taking drugs. They are not mutually exclusive.
RT, none of the articles I was able to read mentioned anything about the individual concerned being a Muslim. Without such confirmation, it is equally likely that he actually was a non Muslim nutter on drugs, which is what all the articles are saying, rather than the less likely scenario where all the media have conspired to keep it quiet that he was a Muslim out of some exaggerated religious PCdom. The Daily Mail is clearly completely unworried by trotting out a long string of attacks by Muslims in the same article in which they cover this attack and even they, apart from this "guilt by association", don't say that the man was a Muslim, so I think it's pretty safe to assume that he wasn't.
Ok, the driver's name was David Patterson, he was white and not a Muslim. Can we have a retraction, please?
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