11 dead in French satirical magazine shooting

[Duque de Bragança]

The two deaths reports are now denied by the Interior minister. (France 24 live)
One seriously wounded though, according to a police source.

[Razgovory]

Same guy just shot up a jewish supermarket in Paris. The live footage from just behind the police are quite intense. Apparently hostages have been taken.

EDIT: They say here it's confirmed that at least 5 hostages have been taken.

Fuck.

Oh, like you give a shit.

Raz, I don't think that's an appropriate response, to some extent you have to take posts at face value; I see know reason to doubt Marty isn't sincere in his reaction.

And why would I suddenly think that Marty's concern over the deaths of those "monstrous sky fairy worshipers" is genuine?  I do believe he was genuine when he hoped that the French came down on the people in the Mosque and opined that it would be a good thing if they acted like they did in Algeria (where you know, the founder the FN tortured people).  Their rights are apparently not that important.  He's ignoring me now, since I pointed out he has no problem demanding people die if they bother him.  He can't come up with a response to that, so he's just calls me crazy (which is true but irrelevant).  He and Viking and Grallon and some others hate Muslims and become positively cheerful when feel cause to express their contempt for people they regard as inferior.  I like to think I make a principled stand against bigotry.  If blacks are the one's attacked, then I defend the blacks.  If the Muslims are attacked, then I defend the Muslims.  When the gays are attacked, I defend the gays.  When it's people who are religious, then I defend them.  This concept seems to confuse a lot of people here.  The idea that I would defend a hated minority is simply "crazy", "trolling", or "contrarian".

[Legbiter]

Stop attention whoring raz.

[mongers]

A helicopter with members of the French intervention forces hover above the scene of a hostage taking at an industrial zone in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris January 9, 2015.

[Legbiter]

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

[Duque de Bragança]

Reports on French TV (France 2) that during the first talk between the anti-terror police and the hostage take in Porte de Vincennes, the hostage taker has asked for the release/free exit of the already besieged Charlie Hebdo attackers in Dammartin.
Hostage taking as a last-ditch attempt for diversion?

[mongers]

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

I don't blame him, plus if he were still doing book signings then those events would be a target for these terrorists and so he risks not only his life but other innocents.

[Warspite]

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).

[derspiess]

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.

I guess they didn't check their privilege.

[mongers]

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

[Liep]

If you're wearing an Adidas tracksuit and are on a scooter, you're asking to have the police crack down on you. That's just a fact.

[mongers]

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).

Yeah no surprise, it's disturbing how much traction that sort of crap gets on social media.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Late pizza delivery?

[Richard Hakluyt]

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

I don't blame him, plus if he were still doing book signings then those events would be a target for these terrorists and so he risks not only his life but other innocents.

Yes, if I lived in Paris I think I'd opt for a quiet night in and watch an old movie today.

[Liep]

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