Please, stay safe and reach out for your friends and family. =((( I hope this madness ends soon.
Please, check the hastag #porteouverte on social media if you or someone you know needs shelter!
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From Reddit as well:
If you're stuck in Paris, the City of Paris has a free emergency number, 0800406005. The City asks people to stay inside their homes, and to host anyone who is stuck outside. /u/Stereo
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travel.gc.ca ✔ @TravelGoC
Canadians in #France: for emergency assistance, contact us at sos@international.gc.ca or call collect at 1-613-996-8885 #paris 2/2
On the off chance anyone reading this needs to pass the information along, the more places we post it the more people can be reached.
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Nah, just someone who has a friend in Paris. Luckily I've heard from him and know he is home and safe. Just hope that those on Steamgifts from Paris or with friends and family in Paris can get them home safe as well.
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I'm talking with a friend near Paris who has friends there and is absolutely shaken... I hope they are fine...
Damn... I'm shaken, too.
5 explosions at Bataclan have been heard.
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First message I got from him was "I was just there 20 minutes before the explosion....only found out where it was."
He's now at home on his couch with a bottle of wine and answering tons of texts.
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Let's hope that his friends, family, relatives are safe, too.
Let's hope that the bastards who are behind this all are found quickly.
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It doesn't matter. As long as you try to help, no matter if you manage to do so or not, whether it is much or no, you are a hero in my eyes.
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All that it takes for evil to triumph is good men to do nothing.
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It's a never ending battle, as good develops ways to prevent and stop evil well, evil develops new ways to circumvent good. It is a very delicate balance that the human race has never perfected and probably never will unfortunately, but when things like this happen I think we all can agree as quick of an end as can be achieved is the best.
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There's a quote about how I'm feeling and it goes like this: "I met the humans and I ended up loving the animals".
Why are there borders, religions, fanaticism, hatred, etc.? Why can't people love each other? Am I from a different planet or something? Because I can't understand why all these things keep happening.
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+1 I don't know why this happens, nothing justifies killing like this.
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Exactly. I don't understand how these "people" got so much hatred and started killing and going kamikaze, but I'm afraid that they think that they're doing it for the greater good. Every bad person in history justified his killings as doing something for the greater good. Let's just hope that things like these will never happen again.
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I can't help wishing those who are behind it, those who nourished this hate, planned all this and sent those men there, those who are now happily observing it from a safe place, to rot in hell.
(Just need to rant.)
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This is...awful...an attack on a stadium in a friendly international match, a shooting spree on a restaurant, and now they also are holding hostages on a museum and killing them one by one like in the '80s terrorist movies?
Gosh...this is a really bad night for France...I pray for this to stop...I don't care who is/are behind this...just....stop...
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It's not an awful night for France. It's an awful night for whoever doesn't support this kind of actions. If you (and of course I am not talking about you personally) don't feel saddened from this, I really can't call you a human being.
Unfortunately there'll never be peace in this rotten world.
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i cannot say how angry i am right now
grab some great music by french bands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIH5QLjGCf0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtPUmqPCgvM second and third are great
they are like reflections of my emotions now
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thats crazy, but this is just beginning. Hundreds of thousands people from Syria and other countries will invade Europe, and this will be daily in TV... :-(
It is really sad :(
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Assault now underway at Bataclan
French Authorities are asking that anyone who sees people posting Police Movement or Locations on Social Media be reported to authorities.
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I can't believe they had to say it, why would people broadcast police's attempt at stopping this?!?!
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It happened during Charlie Hebdo and it was used by the attackers to circumvent police and place attacks on them.
The theory is anyone posting the information is helping terrorism.
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With the current state of emergency i doubt they'll be going anywhere, and ye i just can't imagine someone that thinks tweeting about police movements are actually helping anyone but the terrorists, im just hoping this nightmare ends soon with the least amount of victims possible
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Cause they are idiots and don't think of the consequences of their actions.
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Because they are idiots, that don't realize it could cost lives.
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There'll always be supporters for these actions. The prove for this is that organizations who do these kind of acts appear more and more often and grow more and more.
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"Fame", attention.. or simply just the possibility of sharing it. I don't know. People are stupid.
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Sadly... i don't think you are far from the truth, which is quite sad
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THIS. 1 hostage situation here in my country ended up with so many dead because journalists decided they should report on police movement and the hostage taker was watching the whole thing on TV.
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Of course the most important thing to do is report everything, so you've got a good story to tell.
smh, I don't know what to say.
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There is a gag issued on the event at the Bataclan now but reports are coming in that at least one assailant is dead.
Paris embassy numbers:
British: +33144513100 Irish: +33144176700 US: +33143122222 Australia: +33140593300 Canada: +33144432900 Brazil embassy number: +33145616300 Italian embassy number: +33149540300
Press now wearing bullet proof vests.
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I am French, and today is a black day for my country.
All my thoughts are for the families who have lost someone.
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French TV talks about almost 40 dead people around the 3 different attacks, ie bombing suicide near Stade de France + shooting into different restaurants and streets nearby + shooting and hostages still held in Bataclan during an Eagles Of Death Metal show. This is obviously coordinate attacks from terrorists. Some witnesses said that shooting guys were talking about Syria. As France is part of the bombing with USA and Russia versus ISIS (well, Russia isn't really bombing ISIS but that's not the topic here) it seems clearly linked to Muslim terrorism.
My country is now at emergency state. Not sure about the follow-up right now. Custioms are temporarily closed.
The climate conference planned in less than a month in Paris may even be cancelled or really shortened to its minimum.
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Yeah apparently according to a witness one guy was shouting "Allah Akhbar" (not sure if that's how its writen) which means something like "Allah is the greatest"
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Allahu Akbar which means I believe "God is Greater/Greatest."
Witnesses also reported hearing This is for Syria being said by the shooters.
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That's it, thanks!
Wasn't entirely sure on the translation as i only caught it from the reporter and it didnt stick, i did read about the Syria mention as well
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Poland prays for France, we are with you. Sincere condolences, it's sad day for everyone....
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Police have asked for a complete gag order on the Bataclan and from all reports no media outlets are reporting anything more than 1 assailant dead, 5 explosions and possibly 3 more assailants inside.
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And so my faith in humanity slips ever closer to the dark abyss :(
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I don't have any faith in humanity. So nothing is lost. We are horrible race and we continue to do horrible things to others.
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Don't let your judgement be affected by a couple thousands of people. There are way more people doing good on a daily basis.
Unfortunately, as it seems there'll always be people doing horrible things across the world.
May there be peace across the globe in the future and never lose hope in humanity. There'll always be light on the end of a dark tunnel!
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It is more than a couple of thousand people. Even with the good in this world it is drowned out by the never ending flood of stupidity. This will have far reaching consequences that most can't even fathom.
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Of course there'll be consequences. The main of which will be the increase of hate against Islam (which increases more and more for obvious reasons). Even the rise of a new Hitler is possible, I really wish I am completely wrong and my statement will make me look completely retarded in the far future but everything is possible.
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The hate part is true. A new Hitler is always a possibility in this and many other situations. The EU might bring in laws restricting certain religious aspects (seeing as how the attacks are believed to be religiously motivated).
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There will be far reaching consequences. France will most likely bar any refugees from entering the country and might deport a lot of the people already in the country. The rest of the EU will probably follow suit seeing as a couple already wasn't keen on taking in refugees. Add increased surveillance and security measures. It might also lead to the deployment of troops to combat ISIS. This would make Iraq and Afghanistan look like a picnic.
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Haha and I bet Germany won't do any of that, but will take more and more refugees instead.
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This will most likely change Germany's view drastically. Increased security and screening of refugees. This is going to become much worse than you might think. The EU will need someone to blame and ISIS would be the chosen entity. All refugees will be seen as potential threats. I do believe there will be some form of military action on the EU's part.
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02070081500 - Foreign Office Number for UK nationals concerned about friends/family in Paris.
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That's horrible, I try to stay far away from the news as possible for many reasons but, I'm glad I saw this thread. Thank you for posting it.
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Terrorism has not religion or colors, my condolences to french humans.
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Terrorism has conviction that is derived from believe. So in reality all religions and believes have the potential to create these kind of acts. It is a sad reality that what is supposed to be spiritually strengthening is the cause of this.
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Terrorism is always made in the name of a so-called "God", so in fact terrorism has a religion and its religion's name is Fear. Only purpose of terrorism is to make people fear and stop living their lives normally.
Becoming afraid would mean a victory from terrorists so the only way to fight them is to keep living our lives, enjoying a good restaurant lunch or going at a rock show, like the numerous people who got killed tonight. Stay locked at home and terrorists have won, which we don't want in any way.
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Just hear that they killed the 2 terrorist on the Bataclan
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dozens of people dead inside, media said, possibly because some explosions during the raid
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For my conspiracy believe of almost everything, this made me think, why they kill them instead of trying to capture them alive to interrogate them, i mean, if you can shoot anyone to kill, you can use some drug dards...
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They'll probably suicide before they manage to capture them. Plus, I don't think that someone who risks his life to do such an act would tell you anything if you tried to interrogate him. Especially someone who is willingly dying in order to kill innocent people.
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You could combat fire with fire, you could tell them that if they dont cooperate, a girl will kill them (as far as i know, they believe that if a girl kill them they will go to hell or something like that) i mean, everyone have a weakness, exploit it if you are trully interested in finish this nonsense
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Unfortunately there'll never be an end into this nonsense. Plus you can't kill someone without a trial and there is no capital punishment in France (AFAIK), so no a girl can't kill them. The point of my comment, however, was that they are determined to do as much harm as possible without being captured. They'll do anything to not be captured alive.
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I read that they blew up Bataclan... this is stuning
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What Aseed say,it was a suicide mission,maybe they dont want to risk it,so they have more deads.
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Reports now coming in that the raid at the Bataclan is over, 2 attackers dead.
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Happened less than an hour ago: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34814203
At least 26 people are dead40 dead.. This is happening way too often these days.There was a man with an automated gun, there are also reports of at least two explosions and hostages taken.
The reports are saying that there are at least 100 hostages.
France closes borders, declares state of emergency.
Hostages are being killed one by one.
Live updates: http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-34815972
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