…or rather, mind the passengers on the Paris Metro:
A man was stabbed to death on the Paris metro as witnesses filmed and posted photographs on social media instead of helping, it has been claimed.
Andy Brigitte, from Martinique, was knifed in an attack at the Châtelet-Les Halles RER station in Paris after a row with another passenger.
Just so we’re clear on this: Châtelet-Les Halles is not some little craphole in the northeast (see below); it’s the Parisian equivalent to London’s King’s Cross or New York’s Times Square stations. (It’s also a rabbit warren if you don’t know where you’re going; a buddy once spent two hours down there trying to change trains.)
But that’s not the point. As one commenter acidly noted: “Oh ok. In 2018, we die in front of a camera without any help.”
Disgusting. I can understand (a little) why people wouldn’t want to get involved in a knifing, because that’s how you become a co-stabbee. But just to take happy snaps of the occasion?
Still in Paris, the linked article has some more cheery news:
Paris metro drivers are refusing to stop at some stations in the capital amid fears over crack-fuelled violence, it has emerged.
A number of train operators have opted not to stop at stations in the city’s north east in order to ‘protect passengers’, according to union bosses.
Some stops are increasingly being used as places of business by crack dealers with Marx Dormoy on line 12 and Marcadet-Poissonniers on lines 12 and 4 said to be among the worst hit.
So if you’re going to Gay Paree in the near future, you’ll want to avoid those two stations, at least.
Unfortunately, there’s no way of avoiding Châtelet-Les Halles because it’s so central a hub. Be careful out there.
It sucks, because the Paris Metro is one of the best subway systems anywhere, and I love using it.
> I can understand (a little) why people wouldn’t want to get involved in a knifing,
> because that’s how you become a co-stabbee. But just to take happy snaps of the occasion?
If the police are so inclined the photographs/video are *good* evidence and make for “a good witness”.
And seriously, what do you expect Europeans to do? They’ve been completely disarmed by the state, they lived for two or three generations (roughly) in a bubble, and now the bubble has popped and things are moving faster than they can adjust.
Me, I’d violate the law and carry a gun. I know, ’cause I’ve done it.
Me, too. Only not in Yurp.
And one of the chief motivators of groups like BLM, aided and abetted by the ACLU, NAACP, and the cop-haters over at Reason magazine, is to make certain that the police are NOT so inclined, by caring more about the crooks than the cops.
Which leads to lovely situations like the one in Shitcago a couple years ago, where a police Lt basically allowed some feral to tackle her to the street and beat the shit out of her because she knew that if she or her fellow officers shot him, “community activists” led by the mayor would turn her and her family’s lives into hell, and harass her fellow cops.
http://blog.christianmoney.com/2016/10/chicago-cop-fearing-public-backlash-takes-beating-rather-than-pull-her-gun.html