11 dead in French satirical magazine shooting

[Warspite]

My initial guess is a pair of local halfwits who ignored Police warnings to stay the hell away from the scene.

[mongers]

My initial guess is a pair of local halfwits who ignored Police warnings to stay the hell away from the scene.

Yes, No doubt, but it's a useful illustration of the inevitable tensions there.

[Martinus]

Stop attention whoring raz.

I just ignore him. I feel sorry for any poster who gets into a discussion with him. He is like a retarded grumbler (who at least is smart so even if he can be annoying, one can sometimes learn something from him).

[DGuller]

I'm waiting for Raz to grow out of his "defender of all faith" phase before I stop glossing over his posts.

[mongers]

Late pizza delivery?

Very late now:

[derspiess]

I don't know the significance of what's going on here but it's rather dramatic;

French police forcibly stop at gun point young people on a scooter as they arrive near the scene of a hostage taking at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris January 9, 2015. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal

The one dude has watched too many gangsta rap videos.

[Ed Anger]

Late pizza delivery?

That does remind me of the Domino's delivery guy from a couple years ago. Pizza on a scooter. Hilarious.

[Razgovory]

Stop attention whoring raz.

I just ignore him. I feel sorry for any poster who gets into a discussion with him. He is like a retarded grumbler (who at least is smart so even if he can be annoying, one can sometimes learn something from him).

No shit, you couldn't come up with a response to my question yesterday and hid.

[Berkut]

Raz is such a debating terror he has forced many languish posters into hiding rather than face his intellectual might.

[Martinus]

Houellebecq's stopped promoting his new book and has gone into hiding.

The French novelist Michel Houellebecq, whose latest book featured on the cover of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on the day of the massacre at its offices, has stopped its promotion as the victims were being mourned.

Houellebecq, a friend of economist Bernard Maris, who was among the 12 people shot dead on Wednesday, was "deeply affected" and had decided to leave Paris for an unspecified rural retreat, his agent said on Thursday.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/09/michel-houellebecq-stops-promotion-novel-charlie-hebdo-attack

His Diplomacy is going to go down.

[Martinus]

Jesus christ there is some absolutely whack-job "they had it coming" commentary out there about how the CH cartoonists constituted a racist, white elite "punching down" on an imperially subjugated minority.

There really are ideas that, as George Orwell put it, are so stupid only an intellectual could believe them.

Is it a name individual or just some stuff being endlessly reposted on social media?

A couple of bloggers and also some friends on Facebook (post-structuralist types).

To paraphrase Stanislaw Lem, before Facebook, I had no idea so many of my friends are idiots.

[Razgovory]

Raz is such a debating terror he has forced many languish posters into hiding rather than face his intellectual might.

I asked him a question that would that if he answered it would reveal him to be a hypocrite.  He had no problem calling me names the post before, but with that one question he suddenly became quite.  Problem is he's not Grumbler and can't stand having people talk about him without reading and commenting.  So he'll ignore me for a week.

[Duque de Bragança]

Amedy Coulibaly, the hostage taker in Porte de Vincennes, had already a conviction in an anti-terrorist case.

More on the new suspected member of the terror cell from Angelique Chrisafis.

Amedy Coulibaly
Amedy Coulibaly Photograph: -/AFP/Getty Images
Amédy Coulibaly, is 32 and from Juvisy-sur-Orge in Essonne outside Paris. He is believed to be the gunman currently holding hostages in a kosher grocery shop at Porte de Vincennes, on the eastern edge of Paris. He is also suspected of killing a French policewoman in a shoot-out in the south of Paris on Thursday morning, less than 24 hours after the Charlie Hebdo attack.

While still a teenager he became involved in criminality and reportedly notched up several convictions for armed robbery from 2001, when he was still a minor. The newsweekly L'Obs reported that he had met Chérif Kouachi, one of the brothers suspected of the Charlie Hebdo attack, between 2005 and 2006 when they were both inside the notorious Fleury-Mérogis prison, south of Paris. The huge prison is known for its overcrowding.

French media reported that Coulibaly had converted and become radicalised in prison.
After an initial spell in prison for armed robbery, he was reported to have then started drug-dealing and served another sentence. After that, with training as a television-fitter, he settled in Grigny in the Essonne, around 20km south-east of Paris.

He was arrested by anti-terrorist police in 2010, suspected of having taken part in a plot to aid the prison escape of Smaïn Aït Ali Belkacem, one of the key figures behind the Paris metro and train attacks in 1995.

During searches of his home, police found Kalashnikov ammunition. He received a prison sentence and is reported to have been released from prison just over a year ago.

Le Monde reported that he and Kouachi had both shared a mentor in Djamel Beghal, a radical figure who had been convicted for a planned terrorist attack on Paris. Police are also now searching for Coulibaly's partner, Hayat Boumedienne, who he lived with.

Coulibaly was the only boy in a family of ten, according to Libération, which said people who knew him had described a happy childhood and average school record. He was said to have changed at around the age of 17 as a result of people he associated with. Liberation cited an expert psychiatric report as part of a court judgement which found "no pathology" but an "immature and psychopathic personality". An expert psychologist had pointed to "his poor powers of introspection" and the "rudimentary" nature of the motivation of his actions, as well as sense of morality which was "lacking" and a wish to be "all powerful".

http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/jan/09/charlie-hebdo-manhunt-kouachi-terrorist-links-live-updates

[Martinus]

Amédy Coubaly, the hostage taker in Porte de Vincennes, had a already a conviction in anti-terrorist case.

If repeat offence pedophiles are chemically castrated, what should be done to repeat offence terrorists? Lobotomy?

[Ed Anger]

Amédy Coubaly, the hostage taker in Porte de Vincennes, had a already a conviction in anti-terrorist case.

If repeat offence pedophiles are chemically castrated, what should be done to repeat offence terrorists? Lobotomy?

Crucifixion