07-15-2016, 12:50 AM
07-15-2016, 01:54 AM
Can you try the embassy? I just looked and so far i dont see numbers to call to ask about ur family.
When trajedy occurs, phone systems often go out.
I pray for your daughter to be returned to you safely. And, that she is able to contact you to let you know she is okay.
It will be on NY news tomorrow. And, I bet I can get some phone numbers where people call to see if their loved ones are on a safe list.
Hang in there, precious.
For those whom don't know, there was a terrorist act in france today. It is bastille day. this is the article.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016...ce-france/
PARIS — France’s national holiday turned bloody and violent Thursday night in the southern city of Nice, as a truck drove through crowds of Bastille Day revelers for more than a mile along a promenade.
French officials said more than 70 people were killed, as the death toll climbed throughout the night. The vehicle was a large white truck, similar to a tractor-trailer.
Eyewitnesses in Nice told CNN that it wasn’t merely a truck crashing into a building, bad as that can be, but a driver intentionally going onto pavements and barreling through seaside promenades at 20 or 30 mph for more than a mile.
Sebastian Humbert, prefect for the Alpes-Martime area, said: “A truck rammed into the crowd over a long distance, which explains this extremely heavy toll.”
Wassim Bouhlel told the Associated Press in Nice that he saw a truck ram through the crowd before the driver exited wielding a gun and firing at random.
“There was carnage on the road,” Mr. Bouhlel told AP. “Bodies everywhere.”
The driver was killed in an ensuing gunfight. Some initial reports had a second assailant in the vehicle and the man escaping, armed. But those reports were not confirmed and by late Thursday night it appeared the driver acted alone.
Christian Estrosi, president of the governing council of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region and a former Nice mayor, told the French TV network BFM that “the driver fired on the crowd, according to the police who killed him.”
“The truck was loaded with arms, loaded with grenades,” he added.
During the early hours of Friday morning, there were reports that police were engaged in a manhunt for a second assailant. But details were unclear.
France’s national police force told Nice residents that “Emergency operation in progress. Keep calm and avoid downtown area. Follow the official accounts to be informed.”
“This is sad. Really sad,” said Chilani Kerdoni, 45, a hotel clerk here in Paris, who was watching slack-jawed as the disturbing images moved across the television in the lobby of the hotel where he works.
“I’m afraid. I’m shocked. We were just watching all the festivities in Paris and other places and then all of a sudden this happens in Nice,” he told The Washington Times. “Now when something like this happens, we think automatically that it’s a terrorist attack. Even if we don’t know yet who did this, the first impression goes to terrorism.”
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but according to the Twitter account of the terrorism-news portal TRACTerrorism.org, Islamic State affiliated Telegram accounts were posting images from Nice.
Islamist terror groups, sometimes using native-French Muslims, have targeted France repeatedly in recent years and the use of vehicles and car bombs are among their known tactics.
If the Nice incident turns out to be Islamist terrorism, it would fit with the predictions of several U.S. intelligence and law enforcement sources, who have told The Washington Times in recent weeks that they are particularly wary that another wave of attacks by Islamic State operatives may be imminent in Western Europe.
A terror attack in France on July 14 would be as symbolic as one in the U.S. on July 4.
Bastille Day is France’s biggest public holiday, celebrating a Parisian mob’s storming of the eponymous royal prison on July 14, 1789, kicking off the French Revolution — the founding event of modern France.
The attack in Nice occurred as parades were being held in cities across France under tight security.
The nation has been under an official state of emergency since last November’s coordinated Paris attacks by the Islamic State, which left 130 people dead, including 89 in a hostage situation at the Bataclan theater, and more than 360 injured.
French authorities have said the state of emergency would be lifted on July 26 although that promise could change after the attacks in Nice.
The nation also had just finished Sunday hosting of one of Europe’s biggest sporting events, the 2016 Euro soccer championships, which prompted terrorism fears also.
Security was particularly tight at a grand military parade down the Champs Elysées in Paris on Thursday, where members of the French intelligence services and Army marched for the annual Bastille Day celebrations.
U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry was among a host of special international guests at the parade.
In an interview on Fox News, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said the Nice attacks vindicated his tough stand on immigration and Islamism, even though the killers hadn’t been identified.
“We’re trying to be so politically correct and we’re making such big mistakes,” he said. “If it’s radical Islamic terrorism, [President Obama] ought to say it.”
He said that if he were president, “I would not allow people to come in from terrorist nations.”
In a statement released shortly after Mr. Trump’s interview, Mr. Obama called the attack “terrorism.”
“On behalf of the American people, I condemn in the strongest terms what appears to be a horrific terrorist attack in Nice, France … we stand in solidarity and partnership with France, our oldest ally, as they respond to and recover from this attack,” he said.
Fernando Freitas, a Paris waiter who immigrated to France from Portugal in 2008, said he’s somewhat worried this attack will cause backlash against immigrants in general, even though it wasn’t known right away who the perpetrators were.
“Maybe there is some chance it was not. But even if we don’t know, I’m thinking it’s the Islamic State,” said Mr. Freitas, 49.
Mr. Kerdoni, a Muslim who came to France 15 years ago from Morocco and has two children raised in France, told The Times that he already fears what politicians such as Marine Le Pen of the National Front will do.
“Yes. Every time this … It’s a good opportunity for Marine Le Pen … 90 percent of the people are not against any Muslims here, but the right wing will profit from this even if the people who did this are not Muslim,” he said.
Mr. Kerdoni’s voice choked up as he said of the dead people: “They were trying to be happy on this night. They are dead now.”
When trajedy occurs, phone systems often go out.
I pray for your daughter to be returned to you safely. And, that she is able to contact you to let you know she is okay.
It will be on NY news tomorrow. And, I bet I can get some phone numbers where people call to see if their loved ones are on a safe list.
Hang in there, precious.
For those whom don't know, there was a terrorist act in france today. It is bastille day. this is the article.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016...ce-france/
PARIS — France’s national holiday turned bloody and violent Thursday night in the southern city of Nice, as a truck drove through crowds of Bastille Day revelers for more than a mile along a promenade.
French officials said more than 70 people were killed, as the death toll climbed throughout the night. The vehicle was a large white truck, similar to a tractor-trailer.
Eyewitnesses in Nice told CNN that it wasn’t merely a truck crashing into a building, bad as that can be, but a driver intentionally going onto pavements and barreling through seaside promenades at 20 or 30 mph for more than a mile.
Sebastian Humbert, prefect for the Alpes-Martime area, said: “A truck rammed into the crowd over a long distance, which explains this extremely heavy toll.”
Wassim Bouhlel told the Associated Press in Nice that he saw a truck ram through the crowd before the driver exited wielding a gun and firing at random.
“There was carnage on the road,” Mr. Bouhlel told AP. “Bodies everywhere.”
The driver was killed in an ensuing gunfight. Some initial reports had a second assailant in the vehicle and the man escaping, armed. But those reports were not confirmed and by late Thursday night it appeared the driver acted alone.
Christian Estrosi, president of the governing council of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region and a former Nice mayor, told the French TV network BFM that “the driver fired on the crowd, according to the police who killed him.”
“The truck was loaded with arms, loaded with grenades,” he added.
During the early hours of Friday morning, there were reports that police were engaged in a manhunt for a second assailant. But details were unclear.
France’s national police force told Nice residents that “Emergency operation in progress. Keep calm and avoid downtown area. Follow the official accounts to be informed.”
“This is sad. Really sad,” said Chilani Kerdoni, 45, a hotel clerk here in Paris, who was watching slack-jawed as the disturbing images moved across the television in the lobby of the hotel where he works.
“I’m afraid. I’m shocked. We were just watching all the festivities in Paris and other places and then all of a sudden this happens in Nice,” he told The Washington Times. “Now when something like this happens, we think automatically that it’s a terrorist attack. Even if we don’t know yet who did this, the first impression goes to terrorism.”
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but according to the Twitter account of the terrorism-news portal TRACTerrorism.org, Islamic State affiliated Telegram accounts were posting images from Nice.
Islamist terror groups, sometimes using native-French Muslims, have targeted France repeatedly in recent years and the use of vehicles and car bombs are among their known tactics.
If the Nice incident turns out to be Islamist terrorism, it would fit with the predictions of several U.S. intelligence and law enforcement sources, who have told The Washington Times in recent weeks that they are particularly wary that another wave of attacks by Islamic State operatives may be imminent in Western Europe.
A terror attack in France on July 14 would be as symbolic as one in the U.S. on July 4.
Bastille Day is France’s biggest public holiday, celebrating a Parisian mob’s storming of the eponymous royal prison on July 14, 1789, kicking off the French Revolution — the founding event of modern France.
The attack in Nice occurred as parades were being held in cities across France under tight security.
The nation has been under an official state of emergency since last November’s coordinated Paris attacks by the Islamic State, which left 130 people dead, including 89 in a hostage situation at the Bataclan theater, and more than 360 injured.
French authorities have said the state of emergency would be lifted on July 26 although that promise could change after the attacks in Nice.
The nation also had just finished Sunday hosting of one of Europe’s biggest sporting events, the 2016 Euro soccer championships, which prompted terrorism fears also.
Security was particularly tight at a grand military parade down the Champs Elysées in Paris on Thursday, where members of the French intelligence services and Army marched for the annual Bastille Day celebrations.
U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry was among a host of special international guests at the parade.
In an interview on Fox News, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said the Nice attacks vindicated his tough stand on immigration and Islamism, even though the killers hadn’t been identified.
“We’re trying to be so politically correct and we’re making such big mistakes,” he said. “If it’s radical Islamic terrorism, [President Obama] ought to say it.”
He said that if he were president, “I would not allow people to come in from terrorist nations.”
In a statement released shortly after Mr. Trump’s interview, Mr. Obama called the attack “terrorism.”
“On behalf of the American people, I condemn in the strongest terms what appears to be a horrific terrorist attack in Nice, France … we stand in solidarity and partnership with France, our oldest ally, as they respond to and recover from this attack,” he said.
Fernando Freitas, a Paris waiter who immigrated to France from Portugal in 2008, said he’s somewhat worried this attack will cause backlash against immigrants in general, even though it wasn’t known right away who the perpetrators were.
“Maybe there is some chance it was not. But even if we don’t know, I’m thinking it’s the Islamic State,” said Mr. Freitas, 49.
Mr. Kerdoni, a Muslim who came to France 15 years ago from Morocco and has two children raised in France, told The Times that he already fears what politicians such as Marine Le Pen of the National Front will do.
“Yes. Every time this … It’s a good opportunity for Marine Le Pen … 90 percent of the people are not against any Muslims here, but the right wing will profit from this even if the people who did this are not Muslim,” he said.
Mr. Kerdoni’s voice choked up as he said of the dead people: “They were trying to be happy on this night. They are dead now.”
07-15-2016, 02:03 AM
The gvt there has notified all US citizens to contact family in US. I think she will try hard to call. Don't give up hope, precious.
• The U.S. Consulate in Marseille advised U.S. citizens in Nice to call family and friends to notify them that they are safe . The Consulate said it was working with authorities to determine whether any U.S. citizens were injured.
(Not sure if she is a US citizen but I believe u live in US now. She will get in touch with you. She is hearing that US is concerned and cannot get through via phones.
Prayers going up.
• The U.S. Consulate in Marseille advised U.S. citizens in Nice to call family and friends to notify them that they are safe . The Consulate said it was working with authorities to determine whether any U.S. citizens were injured.
(Not sure if she is a US citizen but I believe u live in US now. She will get in touch with you. She is hearing that US is concerned and cannot get through via phones.
Prayers going up.
07-15-2016, 06:50 AM
My thoughts a prayers out to you and your loved one.. I cannot fathom such an experience...
If you hear anything please let us know... We are all praying for her safety...
Ice
If you hear anything please let us know... We are all praying for her safety...
Ice
07-15-2016, 01:59 PM
I can't even start to imagine how deperate your feeling right now hun. I know it's of no practical help in finding any news of your daughter, but I just want you to know you are in our prayers...
And just like Charon said, communications of all type, be it mobile phones/Internet/landlines etc., both in and out, will be totally overwhelmed with everybody and anybody that has family or friends in that area right now.
Big Love to you, and to your family hun,
Izzy xx
And just like Charon said, communications of all type, be it mobile phones/Internet/landlines etc., both in and out, will be totally overwhelmed with everybody and anybody that has family or friends in that area right now.
Big Love to you, and to your family hun,
Izzy xx
07-15-2016, 02:50 PM
I heard only 2 americans were killed, father and son from Texas... When will all this crap stop!!
Ice
Ice