Pollyana

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Paris attacks updates - BBC News

Here's the latest we have on the attacks in Paris:

Dozens of people are dead after multiple shootings in the French capital
Between 60 and 100 people are reportedly being held hostage at the Bataclan arts centre
Three explosions were reported outside a bar near the Stade de France, where France were playing Germany in a football match
French President Francois Hollande has declared a state of emergency and closed the country's borders
Paris authorities have asked people to stay indoors

Police have told the AFP news agency that at least 15 people were killed at the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris

bakedbean

Awful. What is the World coming to?

Amazulu

Terrible and sad

What a f**king mess

Whether it likes it or not, the west is being bitch slapped out of the haze it's been living in for decades

Pollyana

From the BBC

Three dead in Stade de France blast'

Three people have died in a blast at the Stade de France, the president of the French Football Federation Noël Le Graët has said, quoted by L'Equipe.

A number of others were injured in the explosion at one of the entrances to the stadium, Le Graët said

Amazulu

140 dead now

Time for the French to get some payback

An eye for an eye

Beoz

The big question, how to you fight a religion.

As much as Islam should be banned in the west, spoilt for many by a few rotton apples, that would just breed further radicals.

As you suggest, closed borders would be a start. Unfortunately it really has to be all about building walls and dividing.

Its a real shame the world had come to this.

Beoz

Sounds like France are closing their borders.

Amazulu

The French should target something like ISIS HQ in Raqqa and flatten it - symbolic too

Buy a fleet of drones armed with Hellfire and start a whole shedload of killing

West and East are going to start separating

Pollyana

Meanwhile on the human side of it....many of us have friends, family in Paris. I have a lovely friend there who I met in Brisbane when she was backpacking. She loves music and goes to a lot of concerts......
It was a loooong couple of hours before I knew she was safe.

RIP those who were not so lucky.

Beoz

Yes RIP to those who have been so unfortunate.

carolinephillips

158 at the last count. My daughter's French exchange student friends are very shocked.

Amazulu

Vive La France

GarryP

The problem here is that many of the french far right will want to lash out at the muslim population (of which there are 2.1m in france). Which plays directly into the hands of the people who planned and carried out this attack.

France will need a displacement activity if there's not to be bloody warfare on the streets - and it's likely to be bloody warfare in syria. Which in turn means more syrian refugees who less will want to take now.

It's also likely that the french will be less forgiving of religious zealots in general.

Finding a path that doesn't make it worse is going to be difficult, and I'm not feeling that the "closed borders" is a positive sign.

mikelincs

It seems the early reports of trouble at the France Germany football match are false, there were explosions near the stadium, but they were agt the Bataclan concert, the Stade wasn't involved, although it was close to the Bataclan. The whole of the BBC news this morning has been reports from Paris and around the world about the atrocity, and I really amazed that Cameron hasn't been at the forefront with at least a televised statement, instead he has limited himself to a written statement given out to the media.

Amazulu

Paris attacks: We are all at war with Islamic State now. We must not back down - Telegraph

Yes you are Con, yes you are

Time to harden your hearts, stiffen your resolve, seal your borders, bring on the killing

You punch me in the face, I hit you with a sledgehammer

A body for an eye

Vasbyt