Driver “Shouting Allahu Akbar” Ploughs Into Crowd on French Holiday Island
A driver “shouting Allahu Akbar” has ploughed his car into a crowd of pedestrians on a French holiday island leaving four people critically injured. Authorities said the attacker’s motive has not been confirmed. The Telegraph has the story.
The male driver rammed into pedestrians and cyclists on the island of Ile d’Oléron, off the Atlantic Coast, on Wednesday morning shortly before 9am local time, France’s interior minister Laurent Nunez said.
At least 10 people were injured, including four critically.
The suspect, a 35 year-old man from the island, has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and an investigation has been opened, Mr Nunez added.
Christophe Sueur, the Mayor of Saint-Pierre-d’Oléron, where the incident occurred, said the driver was “known” to police.
“He is someone who is known, particularly to the police, for behaviour that is not entirely normal, and for alcohol-related problems,” the mayor told BMTV.
Mr Sueur also revealed that the driver “intentionally set fire to his vehicle” after ramming pedestrians and cyclists before being stopped by police.
The country’s anti-terrorism prosecutor has not been included in the investigation at this stage.
The driver’s rampage, which began at around 8.45am on Wednesday, took place between the towns of Dolus-d’Oléron and Saint-Pierre-d’Oléron.
According to local reports, the driver deliberately steered his car toward pedestrians and cyclists along a road joining two towns on the scenic island off the city of La Rochelle.
At the time of his arrest, the suspect “shouted Allah Akbar”, Arnaud Laraize, public prosecutor in La Rochelle, said.
“However, the motive has not been confirmed and the investigation will have to determine this,” he continued.
Mr Laraize added that the suspect resisted arrest and was “subdued with a stun gun”.
Shortly afterwards, police found gas cylinders inside the suspect’s car, which had only partially caught fire, Le Parisien reported.
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Authorities said the attacker’s motive has not been confirmed.
How sweet. And how deeply and puzzlingly mysterious. But in international clownworld this nonsense is now the standard response.
Yes, it’s nauseating how quickly the Globalist “authorities” avoid mentioning “Vehicular Jihad”, and try to replace it with “Mental Health Problems”.
I’m sure all Muslim religious and community leaders will condemn this atrocity in the strongest possible terms. After all, Islam is the religion of peace.
Funny how they’ve all kept remarkably quiet about Muslim atrocities for decades, except to demand extra Taxpayers’ Money for “security” at their mosques, whining that they’re all afraid of a “backlash”.
No one’s offered churches extra protection money. Only mosques and synagogues.
Over 9,000 crimes reported at UK churches in just three years | National Churches Trust
Lead by Shabana Mahmood, a law-abiding and not law-enforcing devout muslim, our next PM with the help of Baron Ali and Zia Yusuf. No? Please note how gradually the “right wing” media moderate their reservations, following the example of The Mirror, The Independent, the Guardian and the BBC – even GBNews gives her enough air time.
He shouted Allahu Akbar and tried to kill people with his car and a bunch of gas cylinders. But this is far too cryptic for any conclusions to be drawn so motive definitely needs a detailed investigation.
Possibly a far right MAGA conspiracy theorist?
Same country. France, Germany and Sweden all serve as a realistic look into the future at the UK’s prospects if it doesn’t change course soon. And the only viable and realistic remedy is to have Reform running the country, because there literally is nobody else in the picture worth considering; ”In the French city of Nice, on Nov. 4, in broad daylight, a 47-year-old Chechen national allegedly approached his ex-partner, the 39-year-old Larissa, and stabbed her numerous times in front of a number of apartment complexes. Police say he surprised the woman from behind near her apartment on Avenue de la Méditerranée, stabbing her multiple times. When the 17-year-old daughter tried to save her mother, the man began stabbing her as well, leaving the young woman currently fighting for her life in hospital. Police found the victim “very seriously injured after receiving several blows with a bladed weapon” and carried out first aid, said the Nice prosecutor Damien Martinelli, according to a press release. During the brutal stabbing attack, the youngest sibling, a two-year-old girl, was in her mother’s arms and witnessed her mother being stabbed to death. The suspect was arrested shortly after the murder. Remarkably, the man was already on… Read more »
NTDWI
Wait, I’ve got it –
No, hang on…
Oh yes! it’s… no, just a sec
ALLA-
No, sorry…
…sorry
Nope. Lost it.
As you were. Sorry about that, I really thought I had it.
There is only one religion, in its various waring branches and variations, which does this as religionists.
I have never heard of hindus, sikhs, buddists, catholics, protestants, preseterians, baptists, confgregationalists, quakers or any other religions doing this. There must be a reason.
Perhaps they misheard and he was really shouting ‘eat at allan’s snackbar’. Very strange location for this to happen given the island is only known for producing salt and would seem an unlikely place to be infected by immigrants. My feeling is we have another drug-addled person.