25 September 2020

The capricious and unknowable...

...Will of, well... you know...

BREAKING: Another day, another Akbar!insert alt text here
French prosecutors are investigating a machete attack near the former offices of Charlie Hebdo, which left two people seriously injured as terrorism. Four people have been injured in total.

"I heard screaming. I went to the window and saw a colleague of mine, stained in blood, being chased by a man with a machete in the street."
UPDATE: Cops dropped the ball again...
"The interior minister said the assailant arrived in France three years ago as an unaccompanied minor, apparently from Pakistan, but his identity was still being verified. He had been arrested a month ago for carrying a screwdriver but was not on police radar for Islamic radicalization."
And, of course...
French police have opened an investigation after a woman in Strasbourg said she was attacked in broad daylight for wearing a skirt. The student, identified only as Elisabeth, 22, said she was punched in the face "by three individuals."

In an interview with France Bleu Alsace radio, Elisabeth said she was walking home when one of the three men said: "Look at that whore in a skirt."

On Thursday, two women were attacked in another eastern city, Mulhouse, on Wednesday, after a man told one of them her skirt was "too short".

The government has denounced the "very serious" incidents as unacceptable.
BACK IN JOLLY OLD ENGLAND:
"Acid attacks have seen a resurgence in the United Kingdom in recent years, with 15 acid attacks a week between 2015 and 2018, three-quarters of which occurred in London."