Eagles of Death Metal Hostage Situation in Paris

I don't know if anybody is following this but as I type this multiple terrorist attacks are occurring in Paris and one such attack was at an Eagles of Death Metal concert. Apparently there are over 100 being held hostage.

http://www.france24.com/en/20151113-several-simultaneous-shootings-paris-casualties-reported

Yeah, I'm watching it now

And what's to keep something similar from happening here?  Nothing.

Scary stuff.

This situation at the Bataclan keeps getting worse.

Watching it on CNN right now. Bad shit...

Apparently the police finally have control of the venue.

Sounds like the French police killed the bastards.

Reports are the band are safe but some of the crew are missing. Of course, early reports are frequently wrong, but that's what I've been reading. What a horrifying situation.

Holy shit!  French police are saying over 100 people dead at the Bataclan alone.

They're saying the f*ckers not only had guns but were tossing explosives into the crowd.

tohostudios wrote:

Holy shit!  French police are saying over 100 people dead at the Bataclan alone.

They're saying the f*ckers not only had guns but were tossing explosives into the crowd.

Ugh. What a nightmare.

Interesting interview that a gentleman had with Anderson Cooper just now. He was in the theatre and able to escape within the first few minutes of this terrible tragedy. According to him, he said the terrorists spoke French, which is really making the French intelligence look bad. They have a really bad issue regarding French nationalists joining Isis and then being able to reenter French society. If these end up all being French nationalists, then heads are gonna roll regarding French leadership.

The good news, the brother of the drummer for the band said the band all made it to safety. What a sad day...

And France has now shut their borders for the first time since 1944. 

Holy crap.

One of the anchors on MSNBC took 5 minutes out of the broadcast to awkwardly explain that the band didn't actually play death metal.

DakotaRogers wrote:

One of the anchors on MSNBC took 5 minutes out of the broadcast to awkwardly explain that the band didn't actually play death metal.

That's about what I would expect from MSNBC.

They're saying that one member has been killed.

The news feeds I'm watching say all the band members are accounted for but several members of the crew are missing.

Who knows in such a chaotic situation.

The stories of survivors of this concert are amazing.

Several people claim to have climbed to the roof of the venue, punched out a window and were invited over to the attic of a neighboring house to hide out.

There was also an attack and multiple explosions outside of a soccer match between France and Germany.

This is some crazy stuff, murderous scum.

I hope that they find all the attackers.

Lots of inappropriate and insensitive rhetoric floating around Facebook right now--all in the vein of either, "F*ck France they hate us anyway and had this coming," or "that's what they get for their rigorous anti-gun laws." Reminds me of why I gave up Facebook in the first place.

Anyway, this is just awful. Prayers for our oldest ally.

Good man, corp.

I had been following this story the second it broke, I had the day off and my son was sick. Just watching TV and then this happened.


A travesty!

112 dead just at The Bataclan..........





I guess it ended up being a very coordinated 7 venue attack. Scary.......

Pure evil. Very sad...

Apparently, this is some kind of Islamic State declaration of war. This could get extremely ugly in Europe.

I watched past night and cranked the latest Eagles of Death Metal album in their honor, not my usual play list band but the album wasn't bad, garage rock.

This is France's 9/11.

Any word on their crew?