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French sniper
bigoutside
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Wow!
https://www.google.com/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/39121997
A French police sniper has accidentally shot and injured two people during a speech by President Francois Hollande in western France.
The shot was fired as the officer moved position on a roof about 100m (328ft) from a tent where Mr Hollande was speaking in the town of Villognon.
The bullet went through the canvas of the tent, where drinks were being made. It passed through a waiter's thigh and lodged in another person's calf.
The injuries were not life-threatening.
Mr Hollande was inaugurating a new stretch of railway when a gunshot was heard. He interrupted his speech for a few moments but reports say there was no panic.
"I hope it's nothing serious - I think not," Mr Hollande said as he paused his address to ask whether anyone had been hurt.
The president later visited the injured - the head waiter of a local hotel and an employee of a railway maintenance company.
One local report said the safety catch of the sniper's weapon had been unlocked, allowing the gun to be discharged accidentally.
Local government chief Pierre N'Gahane said a judicial investigation had been launched.
Asked if the officer had fired accidentally, he was quoted by the Associated Press news agency as saying: "Yes, without doubt."
The marksman is based with a special protection unit in nearby Poitiers, officials said.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/39121997
A French police sniper has accidentally shot and injured two people during a speech by President Francois Hollande in western France.
The shot was fired as the officer moved position on a roof about 100m (328ft) from a tent where Mr Hollande was speaking in the town of Villognon.
The bullet went through the canvas of the tent, where drinks were being made. It passed through a waiter's thigh and lodged in another person's calf.
The injuries were not life-threatening.
Mr Hollande was inaugurating a new stretch of railway when a gunshot was heard. He interrupted his speech for a few moments but reports say there was no panic.
"I hope it's nothing serious - I think not," Mr Hollande said as he paused his address to ask whether anyone had been hurt.
The president later visited the injured - the head waiter of a local hotel and an employee of a railway maintenance company.
One local report said the safety catch of the sniper's weapon had been unlocked, allowing the gun to be discharged accidentally.
Local government chief Pierre N'Gahane said a judicial investigation had been launched.
Asked if the officer had fired accidentally, he was quoted by the Associated Press news agency as saying: "Yes, without doubt."
The marksman is based with a special protection unit in nearby Poitiers, officials said.
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Now just whats wrong with that statement!
Greatest French military victory in the last 20 years...
Mike
I hope you intended that as green font.
The major problem with Remington's fire control was operator error. I carried a 700 w/loaded chamber/safety engaged for YEARS w/o ever having an AD. Grouch Attack carried a 700 ONCE and "it fired when she released the safety". Picking up the dropped rifle and finding her glove still caught between trigger and guard told the story.
Probably chambered in .40S&W. Any other caliber would have blown the legs off of both the victims![:D][:D][:D]
Capt. Jack Sparrow.
The link doesn't work, but who needs a link to verify something so obviously true.[:D]
Click the second part. I'm unable to edit the original.
Everyone knows the French would never shoot at anyone who might shoot back.
made me spew my coffee [:D][:D]
I didn't know that the French even knew how to fire a weapon.
That may explain this incident!
But, the French were bled white in the war. Their losses were staggering.
I have to admit, they didn't do too well in WW2.
Then, to make matters worse, the French managed to lose to the communists in Vietnam in 1953. How sorry did they have to be to lose that war?