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A FRENCH POLICEMAN accidentally fired his weapon, slightly injuring two people at an event where President Francois Hollande was speaking in southwestern France, an informed source said.
Hollande was inaugurating part of a high-speed rail line in Villognon, in the Charente region, when the accident occurred, the source said.
He said the policeman, a gendarme helping to provide security for the president, had inadvertently set off the gun.
“The bullet grazed one person’s calf and then lodged in another person’s leg,” he said, adding that the victims were in a VIP area at the time.
Firefighters evacuated them but said their injuries were “light”.
Hollande continued his speech after the incident, witnesses said.
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Hand out more free food and more people will take it…who knew ?
@Gertrude Gilmore: mind your back with all that punching down.. Bend from the knees!
Why are our people going hungry it’s time
@Robert Halvey: Because fate destined it so. If I’m doing alright it’s obviously because some cosmic force deems my worth to be greater than those who are struggling, who obviously deserve it. It’s basic evolutionary biology. Follow the science!
@Robert Halvey: actually it’s Mainly a U.K. thing. And Northern Ireland is the U.K. not Ireland. Compared to standards of living across European countries (comparable countries seen to be 1st world and developed ) the average U.K. citizen is very poor
Scotland and Northern Ireland have one common denominator – apart from VAT they have no control over taxation.
@Peter McGlynn: Not sure how that’s reducing people’s ability to buy food. Surely food isn’t taxed?
If Scottish people aren’t resorting to food banks at the level that people are in NI, they aren’t as badly off.
A country with a Sin Fein majority in power. People of the South should take note.
@Martin O Connell: But there is no actual functioning assembly in Northern Ireland, due to the DUP not wanting to form an assembly after the last election in which they became 2nd place to Sinn Fein and could no longer claim the role of first minister.
Therefore, the political process in NI is essentially in limbo, with civil servants in control of the day to day running of NI and not Sinn Fein.
So if you want to lay blame for any issues that remain unaddressed in NI at the moment, firstly look to the DUP and then to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and finally the NI civil service.
In fairness to the NI civil service, they flagged early on that this role being forced upon them would lead to a stagnation of services and numerous other issues the longer it continued.
In fairness to the NI civil service, they flagged early on that this role being forced upon them would lead to a stagnation of services and numerous other issues the longer it continued because they have no mandate or power to change, adapt or respond to any issues.
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