The exodus of partygoers is benefitting restaurants in Cabourg and Deauville on the Normandy coast, where many said on Tuesday that they are fully booked for New Year’s Eve, whereas last year they still had tables free until the last minute.
An official at Deauville town hall claimed the number of people who have signed up for the “traditional” annual midnight dip in the Channel has doubled this year, but declined to specify the exact number.
Caterers say party orders have fallen drastically compared to last year, Europe 1 radio reported.
Francis Cousin, a caterer who had more than 400 orders in Paris last year, says he has none in the city this year. “We’ve had a lot of New Year’s Eve cancellations,” he said. “It’s been catastrophic. Everyone wanted to cancel everything. People are reluctant to organise events involving a lot of people.”
France remains in a state of emergency, declared after the November 13 attacks in Paris in which 130 people died. Less than seven weeks later, the capital is on edge, with bomb squads being called out to investigate suspicious packages an average of 25 times a day.
Fears of terrorism are hanging over America’s holiday season, so President Barack Obama is planning a series of events this week aimed at trying to allay concerns about his strategy for stopping the Islamic State group abroad and its sympathizers at home.
Obama’s visits to the Pentagon and the National Counterterrorism Center are part of a push to further explain his terrorism-fighting strategy, White House officials said, after a prime-time Oval Office address last Sunday that critics said failed to do much to reassure the public. Another goal is to draw a contrast with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his inflammatory remarks about Muslims. The Obama administration has warned Trump’s rhetoric emboldens extremists looking to pull the U.S. into a war with Islam.
Three truck bombs killed up to 60 people and injured more than 80 in the town of Tell Tamer in Syria’s northeastern Al Hasakah province on Thursday, a spokesman for the Syrian Kurdish YPG has told Reuters.
Trends
Syria unrest
The blasts struck near a Kurdish militia forces field hospital and in the crowded Souk Al Jumla market square, where the majority of the fatalities occurred. Most of the affected people were civilians, but there were some Kurdish and Assyrian self-defense fighters among them.
The vehicles were allegedly packed with large amounts of explosives, which also caused significant damage to nearby buildings and infrastructure.
Infowars reports live on the ground from Paris on the cancellation of the Germany vs Netherlands soccer game, and how paranoia over the Bataclan terror attacks will reverberate in days to come.
The crash, which cost 224 lives, would be the first successful airline attack by terrorists since two Russian jets were hit by Islamist extremists in 2004.
The terror alert has left 20,000 British tourists without a flight home. And it throws the travel plans of thousands more into chaos because around 900,000 Britons fly to the Red Sea every year.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said he was putting emergency procedures in place to bring stranded Britons home. As 14 UK flights to Sharm this morning were cancelled, it emerged that:
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3303948/Britain-demands-flights-Sharm-Britain-delayed.html#ixzz3qZ4uT300
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
“We are seeing plots against the UK directed by terrorists in Syria; enabled through contacts with terrorists in Syria; and inspired online by Isil’s sophisticated exploitation of technology.
We’ve heard of and seen terrorist attacks launched on the ground and in the air such as bombings. A war veteran familiar with the workings of terrorist groups, however, warned recently that extremists may use a different tactic to strike a blow on the United States: an attack launched from below the ground.
Dan Gordon, an author and a veteran of six Israeli wars, said the jihadist Islamic State may use an existing underground network of tunnels to sow terror in the US, a CBN News report said.
A war veteran familiar with the workings of terrorist groups, however, warned recently that extremists may use a different tactic to strike a blow on the United States: an attack launched from below the ground.
Dan Gordon, an author and a veteran of six Israeli wars, said the jihadist Islamic State may use an existing underground network of tunnels to sow terror in the US, a CBN News report said.
“The country that is most vulnerable to that attack is my other homeland, the United States of America—far more vulnerable because there are terrorist tunnels that exist already,” Gordon said.
http://www.infowars.com/us-most-vulnerable-to-isis-terror-attack-using-tunnel-network/
The incident occurred after 4 PM near Arras in northern France.
The gunman was arrested when the train stopped at a station in the town.
Police have not ruled out terrorism.
Bernard Cazeneuve, the French interior minister, traveled to the region, according to news reports.
http://www.infowars.com/breaking-possible-terror-shooting-on-french-train/
#AllTheNews 