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[AcademicSaucer]

A man armed with a hammer shouted "this is for Syria" and wounded a policeman before being shot and wounded by other officers on Tuesday outside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, one of France's most famous tourist sites.

The Paris prosecutor's office swiftly launched a counter-terrorism investigation into the attack, the first since President Emmanuel Macron won power last month and days before the first round of a parliamentary election in France.

Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said the attacker was carrying the identification card of an Algerian student and that preliminary information indicated he had acted alone.

Dozens of armed police sealed off the area and put the Gothic cathedral into lockdown with nearly 1,000 tourists and worshippers inside.

The incident came three days after militants drove a van at high speed into pedestrians in London before stabbing revelers on the street and in nearby bars, killing seven people and wounding dozens. That followed a suicide bombing in the northern English city of Manchester that killed 22 people.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-attacks-france-idUSKBN18X1V5

 

[Blablurn]

we truly live in fucked up times

 

[Transhuman]

Syria does not want you to hit people with hammers dude.

 

[IsntChrisL]

See now that's what you call creative thinking. Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Give a man a hammer he eats three square meals a day in a French prison for the next 20 years.

 

[spekkeh]

Makes sense. France is after all closer to Syria than Algeria is, so he must have thought he was closing in on the fight. Still more than 3000km off though.

 

[Militaratus]

What did this guy hoped to accomplish by hammering home that message to a random cop?

 

[nocturnalis]

If you want to start fights "for Syria" go fight ISIS, you bitch,

 

[Aters]

He should defend his homeland in his homeland.

 

[FDC1]

We already have a topic about this story:

http://www.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1386432

 

[ModBot]

we already had a thread for that