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Post by judith on Oct 7, 2010 12:43:15 GMT 1
Can I just ask how much air time is being given to this item on the French TV news?
Do you know if it is affecting trips over to the UK? ie will it stop tourists traveling?
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Post by blu on Oct 7, 2010 15:07:46 GMT 1
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Post by stavros on Oct 7, 2010 16:52:30 GMT 1
The object of terrorism is to terrorize. Various intelligence services have heard that there are attacks imminent, so whether or not anything actually happens, the terrorists have achieved their objective.
These bigots & fanatics have managed to create fear in the minds of folk frequenting main European cities. They are in a "heads we win, tails you lose" situation; if they attack one or several European targets they'll see blood & bodies all over TV screens and newspapers - and if they don't attack, but keep feeding scare stories to the intelligence community, they will still greatly inconvenience our everyday lives, and at no cost to themselves.
So is the threat real, or are they scaremongering? Unfortunately, we can't ignore it, or we could be seeing bodies in our streets. Again.
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Post by lib on Oct 8, 2010 6:22:17 GMT 1
Agree with Stavros. Never let threats stop you travelling.
I am being constantly accosted and threatened by young Thai Girls.
Threatening to massage my ego.........................
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Post by judith on Oct 8, 2010 20:41:41 GMT 1
Thanks. We were discussing different countries' reactions to terrorism at school yesterday. We sort of came to the conclusion that France seemed more panicky than the UK, USA, Germany in issuing the latest warning to its nationals.
We have close friends from Devon who wont come to London for our daughter's wedding, but relatives from New Zealand who have booked their flights. I'm about to see what the reaction is from our Breton friends.
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Post by stavros on Oct 8, 2010 22:27:17 GMT 1
The consensus in Brittany (or at least, near Dinan, and in Rennes) seems to be that it lets the military parade about in railway stations and at public events with their nice shiny well-oiled submachine guns, but life goes on as usual. In any case, what use would all that ironmongery be if there was a terrorist incident? In a crowded public place, they'd probably shoot more Frenchmen than they would terrorists.
We've been at 'Vigipirate niveau rouge' for weeks now, and it doesn't seem to matter much to Joe Public west of the Couesnon.
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Post by stavros on Oct 8, 2010 22:32:43 GMT 1
Perhaps I should explain that last reference. The Couesnon is a small river that reaches the sea near Mont St Michel, and marks the frontier between Normandie & Brittany. The Bretons consider le Mont to be Breton, and there is historical justification for this, but over time, the Couesnon moved its bed from east of the Mont to just west of the Mont.
Hence the Breton couplet:
"Le Couesnon, dans sa folie,
A mis le Mont en Normandie"
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