New Raid In Charleville, France

[StrayKat]

Per MSNBC & NBC: There are reports of a new raid in Charleville (Northern France fairly close to Belgium border).

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/Police-Raid-Charleville-Mezieres-Northern-France-351798201.html

A new raid was underway later Thursday in Charleville-Mezieres, a French town near the Belgium border around 145 miles northeast of Paris, according to French police.

A witness told TV station France 3 they had heard explosions.

It is not yet clear if this raid is directly related to the Paris attacks.

Authorities also launched six raids overnight in Brussels, including in the impoverished Molenbeek neighborhood where Paris attacks leader, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, grew up, a spokesman for Belgium's federal prosecutor told NBC News.


https://twitter.com/TamronMSNBC/status/667381840135634944

French sources also reporting an explosion and some arrests:
http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/champagne-ardenne/ardennes/charleville-mezieres/intervention-du-raid-et-perquisition-dans-un-quartier-de-charleville-mezieres-858335.html

[smirkymonkey]

1. I hope they start cracking down on these jihadists.

They know who they are, it's time to start playing hardball.

[2naSalit]

2. I think that is why

Hollande declared war, it makes it possible to round up suspects en masse. They had quite the experience with the WWII crowd that they will do what they can to avoid that scene again. France is pretty progressive concerning human rights but anything can be exploited and I feel that the openness and freedom to "be" is what the terrorists have learned to exploit in the ugliest fashion possible.