Police hostage-takers blew themselves up as police approached -

[dixiegrrrrl]

Once the Paris police decided to storm the Bataclan theater, where four terrorists were holding dozens of people hostage,
the assailants decided to detonate the suicide belts they were wearing, according to local media reports, who added that over 110 people died as a result of the siege.
Three of the attackers were killed after letting off their explosive devices, while the fourth died after being shot by police.
The exact number of hostages killed is still unknown. The Le Parisien newspaper claims over 100 people died, with at least a dozen suffering injuries.
One of the gunmen at Bataclan reportedly shouted: "It's for Syria" and "Allahu Akbar!" meaning, “God is [the] greatest” in Arabic.

https://www.rt.com/news/321884-paris-hostages-concert-shooting/

Note: This same info, is all over Twitter via other news feeds also.

[suffragette]

1. Guardian now reporting there were 8 attackers

http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/nov/13/shootings-reported-in-eastern-paris-live#block-5646a965e4b06fb53392c5ce

French media, quoting investigation sources, are now reporting that eight attackers have died.

Four reportedly died at the Bataclan; three at the Stade de France; and one at boulevard Voltaire.

I must stress this is unconfirmed, and earlier the Paris prosecutor said five were dead, but it is a developing situation.

We do know via police that a number of the attackers blew themselves up with suicide belts.


They also are reporting:

Separate reports say a further 200 people are injured, 80 of them seriously.


On air on France24, a reporter stated that one of the four at the Bataclan was at an emergency exit, so he could kill people as they tried to flee that way.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Extremely planned attack, it appears.

and how do you prevent stuff like that without a 24 hour police state?

[suffragette]

4. Looks highly planned.

Tightening security at a large venue like the concert hall might help, but not for spaces like restaurants or malls.

I have been wondering if the suicide bomber outside the stadium was unable to get inside to detonate and that's why it happened outside.

I hope they don't go in a direction of a police state.

Have you seen Mark Ruffalo's tweet?
Don't allow this horrific act allow you to be drawn into the loss of your humanity or tolerance. That is the intended outcome.

[JanMichael]

5. not really. that scumbags cho and the sandyhook butcher were more efficient.

this was bad but pretty amatuerish.

[valerief]

3. 20-year-old men run the world. They do what their billionaire masters want

them to do and have no rational clue why they do what they do, but they still run the world. It may be the PTB's heads that think up the orders but it's the 20-year-old men's bodies that carry out the tasks. I say we isolate men until they're 30 and less dangerous. (Not really, but it's a thought.)