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Humpday Humor: French Cops Await ISIS Suspects At Wrong Airport
On a day when a French hostage is beheaded by an ISIS splinter group, the bungling of French police's attempts to arrest returning jihadists is simply incredulous...
The French government struggled to explain its bungling of the arrest of three men suspected of having fought for Islamic State in Syria and deported by Turkey, after police waited for them at the wrong airport.
The men turned themselves in this morning at a gendarme station in southern France, BFM TV reported.
“We went through customs, we showed our passports, and there was no one to meet us,” one of the three men, who gave his name as Imad, told Europe1 radio. “We were quite surprised,” he said, adding that they planned to turn themselves in.
They rang the bell at the station in the town of Caylar and were told to wait outside because there was no one there. A police car came 20 minutes later to pick them up and take them to a nearby police station, according to BFM.
The missteps, which Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called a “major foul-up,” led to accusations of incompetence from the opposition and forced Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve to promise an investigation.
Not Their Fault though, right?
After being arrested in Turkey last month, the three men were put on a flight to Orly airport in Paris yesterday. The pilot of that plane refused to fly with them on board, according to a statement from the French Interior Ministry. Turkish police then placed them on a flight to Marseille without informing their French counterparts of the change until after their arrival in France, the ministry said.
A computerized passport system at Marseille airport that should have alerted police about the suspects’ arrival was broken, Le Drian said on France Info radio today.
“It’s a complete mess but a large part of it is due to a lack of good cooperation with the Turkish authorities,” he said. Cazeneuve told reporters he’ll be speaking today to his Turkish counterpart to improve cooperation.
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France has joined the U.S. in airstrikes in Iraq. “This affair didn’t go as it should have,” Prime Minister Manuel Valls said during a parliamentary debate today. “The Interior Minister has spoken about it, and will have the chance to do so again.”
About 580 French have fought or are fighting in Syria, and 36 died there, Valls said today. He said 189 have returned, of which 114 have been arrested, 78 charged, and 53 sent to jail.
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But at least they know how to 'plan' an economy? oh wait...
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There is a time to laugh and a time not to laugh, and this is not one of them.
No. But it IS a time to cry!
Il est impossible, Typical French answer to anything he hears.
Inspector Jacques Clouseau
I'm confused.
"About 580 French have fought or are fighting in Syria, and 36 died there, Valls said today. He said 189 have returned, of which 114 have been arrested, 78 charged, and 53 sent to jail."
Are they freedom fighters, moderate terrorists, ISIS, or Syrian Army sympathizers?
or hezbollah, or specnaz or kurdish or may also be a frogeaters' secret service cunt
All governments fight their people not terrorists, the people are the terrorists for them, they have that so well in their mind that they don't even see the real terrorists when they surrender, reality is pulp fiction now.
"About 580 French have fought or are fighting in Syria, and 36 died there, Valls said today. He said 189 have returned, of which 114 have been arrested, 78 charged, and 53 sent to jail."
He missed the most significant statistic: In addition to those numbers above, 1180 French have surrendered already.
"Does your dog bite?" Sellers was a genius.
Sort of a cheap shot on France there.
Tyler, this article is only a good excuse to make fun out of the French, and we will surely have a firework of hateful comments and “good jokes” coming from “superior people” - as usual in ZH, when it is about the French.
About the mistake commited by the French Police in this case, just an advice :
« Don't through stones at others if you live in a glass house »
As a sample, remember September 2001 and the «exceptional efficiency and foresight» of US Police and Secret Services.
How many «Inspector Jacques Clouseau» inside ?
sont cons, et jaloux, même pas la peine de relever. laisse tomber.
Juste histoire de mettre les choses au clair ...
That’s not all, apart from the «exceptional efficiency and foresight» of US Police, FBI, CIA, NSA etc, there is more: During all these long hours everyone has noticed the «extremely rapid intervention» of the US interceptors, the fighters on the alert 24 hours a day (the redoubtable F15, F16, F18, F22, F35 …etc), guided by a tremendous detection network (NORAD, Hawkeye, Awacs …etc).
On that day, maybe they were all managed by a bunch of “Inspectors Clouseau” …
Peter Sellers is dead but Inspector Clouseau is alive and well.
With ten men like that, I could destroy the world.
Commissioner Dreyfus, Clouseau's boss.
Oh yes, an investigation, we know what those are.
Oh wait, I know this one WB7 !
are they the heavily establishment based, and biased, focus groups who draw erroneous conclusions about outrageous events in such a way as to negate the event and provide a distant time-horizon for the baying public to calm down about said outrage, and imagine something is actually being done while protecting vested-interests ?
No minky licence
How far the french have fallen since DeGaulle. In his day, French Intelligence would have pegged ISIS as a CIA program, publicly. Very sad.
Never got the feeling he was a particularly nice fellow, but at least he was consistent and not afraid to go his own way.
He was surely an irritant to those in government in USA.
Surprised he lasted as long as he did.
Well, de gaulle of that man.
Oops. Clouseau lives
"Do you have rooum wiz a phooun?"
"Do yuw hef a swimmingk puuuuullll?"
Faux intelligence
"You'll soon be laughing at the other side of my face my friend!!!"
Married (for a while) to Britt Ekland. A man could do worse. Hell, we all did;)
Maybe we should outsource ObamaCare to the French? I mean, it's just your mortality.
We euthanized some folk.
Does your dog bite?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXn2QVipK2o
Still hilarious even when you know exactly what's coming. . .
hmmm, not.
Meanwhile they are letting Muslims stream across the border into France and take advantage of social programs while having lots of babies. Notre Dame Cathedral will be converted to a mosque in 50 years.
"Poor Kato...they nearly blew his little yellow skin off!"
eb, if TPTB have their way, there won't be a mosque anywhere on the planet in 50 years. You really oughta take the time to listen to this- https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&...
Gadfly linked to this recently, but I don't think many followed it. (Thanks, Gadfly!)
eb, you and nme are smarter than the average bear, and pretty sure you'll both agree that Myron Fagan is too.
Please, I implore you!
I'm about half way through the audio file, but Wow.
They were Clouseau-ed.
".....Inspector Clouseau to arrivals, paging Inspector Jaques Clouseau....."
The French police were probably all very busy investigating crooked politicians, criminal bankers and financiers.
Sorry, very bad humor.
Having lived in France for a few years, I can only testify to their enormous incompetence. Their only field of competence is, you've guessed it: organizing a strike. For the rest, they couldn't organize a piss up in a brewery.
Add a third world country like Turkey (a wannabe member of the EU, yeah rrrriiiight) into the mix and the potential for fuck ups is unlimited.
Here's another French security fuck up of 2004: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/07/international/europe/07paris.html?_r=0
You think they learned from their mistakes? Nope, a similar thing happened in July 2014: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/02/french-police-lose-explosiv...
They are complete idiots!
They do make good wine and cheese.
Good food generally, and served in the right portions at the right pace.
Spent some interesting times in my teens in France.
Ran into a lot of very good people and only one or two arseholes.
I think that's mostly how it goes, as long as you avoid countries the US has been 'helping'
for sure from a country that do not mess inside whole others countries arround the glob, asking politly an information instead of spying.... we cannot be as precise than usa... period.
have you found the suspects about 9/11 already ? we dont have to get any lesson from a people electing a nigger as president, go fuck yourself.
Your english sucks, my french is non-existent, but if I understand you correctly, I like your spunk!
Vive la Revolucion!
"It's obvious to my trained eye that there is more going on here than meets the ear".
Inspector Clouseau
french intelligence -..... oxymoron in 2 words .....
Marie Curie
Lois Pasteur
Antoine Henri Becquerel
Blaise Pascal
Joseph Fourier
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Paul Broca
Well done, but I would have gone with the artists,
and maybe Marcel Marceau;)
Although Marie Sklodowska-Curie was Polish and did not arrive in France until her mid twenties, There are many others who could be added to the list: Ampere, Carnot, Poisson, etc...
Was Lois Louie's sister? Just joshin', my typos are epic!
As in American culture?
Other than Catherine Denueve, what the fuck have the French got to show for themselves?
www.traderzoo.mobi
Binoche & Adjani
Marie Curie
Lois Pasteur
Antoine Henri Becquerel
Blaise Pascal
Joseph Fourier
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Paul Broca
Lavoisier. Cugnot.
Inspecteur Clouzot is France's most famous policeman.
Good film director Clouzot. he made la Vérité with BB. When drunk he acted as Clouseau.
Les Diaboliques scared the shit out of me as a child. Later in life it did not scare me so much but it is an excellent movie. Opening tune I use on my phone when wifey rings.
. . . but the french and uk gubbermints were AOK when these ' freedom fighters ' were on their way to join FSA against Assad.
Incompetence is not the word i'd use for these ' civil servants ' , TWISTED DUMBFUCKS would be more appropriate and REAPING WHAT YOU SOW is an expression that springs to mind.
If only the fucks that cause the problems really did reap what they sow.
Usually the reaping happens to anyone but those that cause them.
Those that cause wars rarely take prt in the fighting.
Hmm . . . saw a limo driver today at the Cleveland Airport near the taxi entrance, a half-eaten baguette sticking out of his breast pocket, holding a sign reading "ISIS", with an accent over the second "I" -- didn't think much of it at the time...
So France have "About 580 French have fought or are fighting " in sovereign Syria and no sanctions for them>?wtf?
Will deliver the Mistrals the wrong address?
The Russians will not like the excuse ...
hehe.
I'll have a large order of french fries...... fuck the freedom.
The fighting is far from over. Why are they returning?
WTH? Are they on furlough? Why aren't they with the other soldiers? It almost sounds like they deserted.
What could be the pilots motivation to take such a stern action?
Well, that pilot did not share his concerns.
Again, why are they returning? Why soo desperate to turn themselves in? What story do these 189 returnees have to tell?
Regarding your last question, it would seem they have absorbed the essence of being French.
Sacré bleu! Idiots!
You guys just hate them for their superior ship building skillz.
>> Mistral Class Amphibious Assault Ship <<
Vladimir says to quit all that HATIN....
ISIS, like ebola, is everywhere already.
It says more about the Turks than about the French. But the men reporting themselves in is a bit of a surprise but perhaps they were afraid they would get wacked because French antiterrorism squads don't mess about.
why do not the authorities wave a citizenship of those people? Ehm, I mean why not shoot them on the spot, or better, behead them on the spot?
It may seem embarrasing for France, but in reality this is an embarrasing feature of most of our EU countries. You cannot expect anything good from our bureaucratic system.
has anyone noticed these men weren't bombed by drones without due court? they just turned themselves in at police! look ma, no drones!!!