– ‘We are at war,’ wrote the editor of Le Figaro, Alexis Brézet, following the terrorist attack in Nice on 14 July 2016.
Merah, Charlie, the Bataclan, Magnanville and now Nice. How many more times before we open our eyes? How many brutal attacks and massacres before our leaders will admit that fanatical Islamists have launched a fight to the death against our country and our civilisation?
We are leaving our borders open (our front lines, as the soldiers say) to the enemy. Jihadist recruiters are allowed to preach their ideology of hatred with impunity in mosques funded by the enemy. ‘Traitors’ who went off to fight in Syria are met with a simple ‘deradicalisation’ programme. They can form a fifth column because they have not ‘committed any crime yet’.
He could have said that six months earlier, as the French realised they were at war after the Bataclan. The coordinated jihadist attacks in Paris on Friday 13 November 2015 resulted in a total of 130 people killed, over 400 wounded and several who later took their own lives.
The Bataclan was a jihadist bloodbath.
“How many times before we open our eyes?”, wrote editor Alexis Brézet. An infinite number of times, is the answer. For our politicians continue to close their eyes and drone on about diversity until they’re blue in the face.
The Bataclan terror attack triggered a curfew in Paris for the first time since the Second World War. But as Mark Steyn pointed out: The barbarians are on the inside, and there is no gate.
The report on the terrorist attack at the Bataclan in Paris on 13 November was presented in early July 2016. It then emerged that the gruesome details from the Bataclan had been withheld from the press. The bodies of the victims were in such a horrific state that they could not be shown to the families.
Several of the victims on the third floor of the theatre had had their heads severed. Others had had their eyes gouged out, and still others had been castrated.
We have translated extracts from the report:
Georges Fenech, chair of the commission of inquiry:
The commission is concerned about this information, which has not been made public. The father of one of the victims has sent me a copy of a letter he wrote to the investigating judge. I quote in abridged form:
‘As regards the cause of death of my son A., I was informed by the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Paris – albeit with some reservations due to the shock this caused me at the time – that his testicles had been cut off and placed in his mouth, and that his abdomen had been cut open.
When I saw him through a glass pane, he was lying on a table, covered by a white shroud up to his neck. A psychologist accompanied me. She said: ‘The only part of your son that can be shown is the left side of his face.’
I noticed that his right eye was missing. When I pointed this out, I was told that they had gouged out his eye and smashed the right side of his face, which explained the extensive bruising we could all see when he was placed in the coffin.”
Michel Cadot, Paris Police Prefect:
I have not been made aware of these circumstances, either by the Institute of Forensic Medicine or by the police officers in question. It is obviously up to the judicial investigation to determine whether this is correct.
However, I understand that no knives or other cutting implements were found at the scene that could have caused this type of mutilation.
Christian Sainte, Head of the Paris Criminal Investigation Department:
I find it difficult to comment further on this, as the investigation is still ongoing. However, to the best of my knowledge at this stage, there is nothing to suggest that what has just been read out is correct.
I would like to clarify, to make this absolutely clear, that some of the bodies found at the Bataclan were extremely mutilated by the explosions and the firearms. In some cases, it was so difficult to piece together the torn-apart bodies that it posed considerable problems.
In other words, the injuries described by the witness may also have been caused by automatic weapons, explosions or the scattering of nails and bolts resulting from the explosions.
Georges Fenech:
So they are said to have placed his testicles in his mouth …
As the years go by, a veil of oblivion is cast over the horrific and bestial acts that jihadists carry out, film and boast about. 7 October 2023 marks the latest in a series of massacres carried out by Muslims. The difference is that efforts are now being made even more rapidly than before to reverse the narrative, whitewash the events and portray the perpetrators as victims.
Meanwhile, the demographics of Europe are changing at an even faster pace. Muslims are gaining ever greater influence in political elections. A French report from 2024 presents the following figures:
The Bataclan attack shocked Europeans, but just as in France, there were also several Muslim schoolchildren in Italy who refused to observe a minute’s silence for the victims, just one week after the massacre.
We quoted then Prime Minister Erna Solberg as urging national calm and provided a link to Aftenposten. Here is a screenshot (AI-translated) from Document’s website:
The link now goes straight to a 404 error page, so this has subsequently been removed by Aftenposten:
Bergens Tidende ran the story, and the quote can be found there.
The PST believed that we must tolerate such terrorist attacks.
– Democracy must tolerate this. Our open, free and democratic societies are vulnerable, but must endure it,” said Head of Analysis Jon Fitje Hoffmann to NRK two days after the attack.
Terrorism researcher Thomas Hegghammer emphasised that it is important not to automatically extrapolate what is happening in France to Norway. He believes that France and the UK are in a unique position when it comes to threats from jihadists.
Do Hegghammer and Hoffmann still hold the same view today?
“13 November 2015 – Paris – we will never forget”
