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ANNECY, FRANCE—French authorities struggled Thursday to explain why no one found a 4-year-old child for eight hours at a blood-strewn crime scene as she huddled in a car under the skirt of a corpse — apparently her dead mother or grandmother. The stunning discovery Thursday of the girl, apparently unharmed, heightened the drama around a mysterious shooting rampage in the French Alps that left four adults dead and a 7-year-old girl hospitalized after being shot and brutally beaten. A day after a cyclist came across the corpses in a wooded area near the mountain village of Chevaline, investigators said the reason for the killing remains unclear. (via Girl, 4, spent 8 hours huddled under mother’s body after French Alps shooting rampage - thestar.com) French authorities took pains to avoid identifying the six people found in and around a BMW at the wooded site. The bodies of a man and two women were in the car, and the body of an unrelated male French cyclist was found on the ground nearby. The two girls were found alive. Maillaud said the car was registered to a British man born in Baghdad in 1962. He said the man who had lived in London for a decade and his family had been vacationing in France since August, camping on nearby Lake Annecy. The driver was identified by the Sipa news agency as Saad al Hilli, a resident of a London suburb. Sky News, citing neighbours in the British town of Claygate, identified his wife as Iqbal, the 7-year-old as Zehab and the 4-year-old as Zeinab. Sky quoted neighbour George Aicolina as saying Saad al Hilli was an engineer who was “very much in love with his two girls.” Sweden confirmed that one of the victims was Swedish. French authorities found a Swedish passport that appears to be that of an older woman slain in the car, born in 1938, as well as an Iraqi passport. What’s with all this hoopla about the “unnoticed girl”?! She hid for her life - good thing she hadn’t been noticed by the killers! How could she have known who to make herself known to?!

ANNECY, FRANCE—French authorities struggled Thursday to explain why no one found a 4-year-old child for eight hours at a blood-strewn crime scene as she huddled in a car under the skirt of a corpse — apparently her dead mother or grandmother. The stunning discovery Thursday of the girl, apparently unharmed, heightened the drama around a mysterious shooting rampage in the French Alps that left four adults dead and a 7-year-old girl hospitalized after being shot and brutally beaten. A day after a cyclist came across the corpses in a wooded area near the mountain village of Chevaline, investigators said the reason for the killing remains unclear. (via Girl, 4, spent 8 hours huddled under mother’s body after French Alps shooting rampage - thestar.com)

  • French authorities took pains to avoid identifying the six people found in and around a BMW at the wooded site. The bodies of a man and two women were in the car, and the body of an unrelated male French cyclist was found on the ground nearby. The two girls were found alive.
  • Maillaud said the car was registered to a British man born in Baghdad in 1962. He said the man who had lived in London for a decade and his family had been vacationing in France since August, camping on nearby Lake Annecy. The driver was identified by the Sipa news agency as Saad al Hilli, a resident of a London suburb.
  • Sky News, citing neighbours in the British town of Claygate, identified his wife as Iqbal, the 7-year-old as Zehab and the 4-year-old as Zeinab. Sky quoted neighbour George Aicolina as saying Saad al Hilli was an engineer who was “very much in love with his two girls.”
  • Sweden confirmed that one of the victims was Swedish. French authorities found a Swedish passport that appears to be that of an older woman slain in the car, born in 1938, as well as an Iraqi passport.

What’s with all this hoopla about the “unnoticed girl”?! She hid for her life - good thing she hadn’t been noticed by the killers! How could she have known who to make herself known to?!

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nationalpost:

‘Act of gratuitous violence’: Two shot, one killed at Pauline Marois’ PQ victory party
MONTREAL — Parti Québécois leader Pauline Marois was abruptly dragged off stage by bodyguards midway through her victory speech Tuesday after a 62-year-old man allegedly opened fire into the theatre where she was speaking.

The shooting left one victim dead and a second in critical condition. Because of the possibility that Marois herself may have been the target of the shooting, the Quebec Provincial Police have taken control of the investigation.

There appeared to be some linguistic link to the attack. When police took the suspected shooter away, the ranting man declared, “The English are waking up.” (The Canadian Press/Reuters)

Apart from the loss of life, which is terrible, this is also a dumb idea for whatever that idiot was trying to foment: it will rejuvenate separatist feelings.

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newsweek: Conflicting information here. Did the shooter, or did he not, fire upon NYPD officers? That is the question of the moment. Either way, the officers shot him dead—and reportedly hit a few other bystanders in the process. The story’s still fluid, obviously, but this illustrates nobody’s really sure who shot at who. What we do know, however, is that two are dead as a result of this morning’s violence.  [Graphic and tweet via the New York Times. Worth pointing out the above graphic was tweeted out 1 1/2 hours after the Times reported on Twitter the shooter did NOT shoot at cops.] Collateral damage or security theater?

newsweek:

Conflicting information here. Did the shooter, or did he not, fire upon NYPD officers? That is the question of the moment. Either way, the officers shot him dead—and reportedly hit a few other bystanders in the process. The story’s still fluid, obviously, but this illustrates nobody’s really sure who shot at who. What we do know, however, is that two are dead as a result of this morning’s violence. 

[Graphic and tweet via the New York Times. Worth pointing out the above graphic was tweeted out 1 1/2 hours after the Times reported on Twitter the shooter did NOT shoot at cops.]

Collateral damage or security theater?

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