Londres (R-U) - Attentats

Des détails dans Libé (7/07/2005)  (Extraits)

Explosion dans le métro de Londres

Une explosion a eu lieu jeudi matin dans une station de métro du centre de Londres, provoquant des blessés, et un "incident" s'est produit dans une autre station.

Par D'après AFP et Reuters

jeudi 07 juillet 2005 (Liberation.fr - 11:06)

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Selon la chaîne de télévision Sky News, les stations de métro de St Pancras et de Stratford ont été évacuées et de nombreuses lignes du métro étaient bloquées. Stratford est la station qui dessert le quartier où sera construit le village olympique des Jeux de 2012. Cette explosion, survenue à une heure de pointe, s'est produite au lendemain de l'annonce que Londres accueillera les Jeux Olympiques de 2012.

   

J'ai vu les images sur Euronews ce matin, ça n'avait pas l'air paniqué là où la caméra filmait (une des stations de métro qui a explosé)
On ne voyait aucune victime, juste la police et les ambulances qui s'organisait autour de la station.
Ca m'intrigue tout ça.

On parle de 6 explosions maintenant, et 20 morts....

Quel rapport avec le titre Londres 2012? je trouve ça de très mauvais gout. Je suis étonné.

UrbaM a écrit:

Quel rapport avec le titre Londres 2012? je trouve ça de très mauvais gout. Je suis étonné.

C'était pas par provocation, tout le monde a fait le rapprochement inconsciement a un moment ou à un autre, il ne faut pas y voir de message caché.

En tout cas esperons que le bilan ne sera pas trop lourd.

No Pb 

Le fil des événements  (Extraits)
LEMONDE.FR | 07.07.05 |



13 h 40 : Le ministre de l'intérieur italien, Giuseppe Pisanu, a déclaré que les attentats de Londres "ont fait au moins 50 morts", a indiqué l'agence italienne Ansa. Interrogé par l'AFP pour savoir d'où le ministre tenait ce chiffre, le ministère a affirmé qu'il "ne révélait jamais ses sources".

13 h 34 : Selon l'agence italienne Ansa, un groupe auparavant inconnu, le "Groupe secret du djihad d'Al Qaida en Europe", a revendiqué les attentats de Londres, sur un site Internet.

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12 h 22 : Le chef de la police parle d'"environ six"  explosions dans le centre de Londres. La première explosion a été signalée à la station de métro Liverpool Street. Le métro a été le théâtre d'un "incident" à la station d'Edgware Road. D'autres explosions ont été signalées à King's Cross, Aldgate East and Moorgate. Une à deux autres explosions se sont produites dans des autobus à Tavistosck Place, près de Russell Square, dans le centre-ville.

12 h 18 : "Le terrorisme frappe encore au c½ur de l'Europe et frappe le pays qui préside l'Union européenne et le G8", a déclaré le commissaire européen à la justice et à la sécurité, l'Italien Franco Frattini, après les explosions survenues à Londres.


12 h 10 : Le président du Parlement européen fait état de nombreux morts dans une série d'"attentats coordonnés".

12 h 06 : Le premier ministre britannique, Tony Blair, donnera une conférence de presse à 13 heures (heure de Paris).


12 h 03 : Une seconde explosion s'est produite à Tavistock Square, dans le centre de Londres, où une déflagration avait un peu plus tôt visé un autobus, rapporte un témoin. "Il vient d'y avoir eu une autre déflagration", a-t-il déclaré à la chaîne de télévision Sky.

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10 h 36 : Une explosion s'est produite dans la station Liverpoll Street du métro de Londres. Le quartier financier, situé au centre de Londres, a été bouclé par la police, a annoncé la police des transports londoniens. L'explosion a eu lieu à 8 h 49 locales sur la Metropolitan Line. La police des transports a fait état "de blessés en état de marcher". Des services d'urgence ont été appelés sur place.

Avec AFP et Reuters

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0 … 311,0.html

DERNIERE MINUTE

14h06 : Un groupe se disant lié à Al-Qaida revendique les attentats de Londres
Un groupe islamiste, s'identifiant comme "l'Organisation Al-Qaida du djihad en Europe", inconnu jusqu'ici, a revendiqué la responsabilité des attentats survenus jeudi matin à Londres, dans un communiqué diffusé sur Internet.
(AFP)

13 h 58 : Selon CNN, on compte dix morts dans la seule station de métro King's Cross, dans le centre de Londres.

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/vi/0,47-0@2-3 … 311,0.html

La carte des attentats

Je viens d'entendre sur Euronews maintenant que 3 bus anglais a 2 étages ont explosé. On aurait retrouvé des pains d'explosifs, disait la présentatrice

C'est ça d'être en direct live d'un tel évènement. la masse d'info est très împortante et ne se recoupe d'une source à une autre.

Beaucoup de rumeurs sur des attentats suicide à Canary Wharf maintenant...

Esperons que ça ne reste que ds rumeurs.
Déjà plus de 50 morts c'est vraiment tragique.

Originally Posted by The Secret Organisation Group of al-Qaeda of Jihad Organisation in Europe
In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate, may peace be upon the cheerful one and undaunted fighter, Prophet Muhammad, God's peace be upon him.

Nation of Islam and Arab nation: Rejoice for it is time to take revenge against the British Zionist Crusader government in retaliation for the massacres Britain is committing in Iraq and Afghanistan. The heroic mujahideen have carried out a blessed raid in London. Britain is now burning with fear, terror and panic in its northern, southern, eastern, and western quarters.

We have repeatedly warned the British Government and people. We have fulfilled our promise and carried out our blessed military raid in Britain after our mujahideen exerted strenuous efforts over a long period of time to ensure the success of the raid.

We continue to warn the governments of Denmark and Italy and all the Crusader governments that they will be punished in the same way if they do not withdraw their troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. He who warns is excused.

God says: "You who believe: If ye will aid (the cause of) Allah, He will aid you, and plant your feet firmly."

Avec toujours la bonne excuse de la bénédiction de dieu     

Ce qui m'énerve aussi, c'est que les personnes racistes, qu'elles tempèrent leur sentiment, qu'elles les cachent ou qu'elles les expriment, vont penser se trouver conforter dans leurs stupides raisonnements.

Ca c grave, pour nos populations résidentes, en GB, en France ou partout ailleurs dans les pays "développés".

@ UrbaM

Oui, tu as raison, lier ces attentats lamentables à London 2012, c'est ridicule. Je cherchais des infos sur l'archi prévue pour les JO londoniens quand je suis tombé là-dessus, j'ai été tellement surpris que j'ai laissé le titre par inadvertance. C'est vraiment, une erreur... 

UrbaM a écrit:

Ce qui m'énerve aussi, c'est que les personnes racistes, qu'elles tempèrent leur sentiment, qu'elles les cachent ou qu'elles les expriment, vont penser se trouver conforter dans leurs stupides raisonnements.

Ca c grave, pour nos populations résidentes, en GB, en France ou partout ailleurs dans les pays "développés".

La spirale infernale...   

Oui, j'ai d'ailleurs déjà pu lire ailleurs des réactions raciste, et ça n'est que le début malheureusement. Au final encore plus de gens vont souffrir, alors qu'il y en a déjà beaucoup trop. Vraimetn un sale coup au moral des britanniques et de toute l'europe.... de tout l'occident voire plus même...

Sinon les réactions françaises sont assez cyniques je trouve (pas d'intérruptions des programmes à la TV avant le journal de 13h ??)

Aux infos, ils ont dit que les attentats étaient plutôt liées au G8 prévu de longue date; les attentats n'ont pas pu être préparés en l'espace d'une nuit après l'annonce de la victoire de Londres.
C'est bien une menace envers les Etats du G8.

Du Guardian unlimited :

Details of the London blasts

Mark Oliver
Thursday July 7, 2005

Four blasts tore through London's transport system during the morning rush hour in a choreographed series of terrorist attacks.

Police said at least 33 people were killed, 21 near King's Cross station, and the ambulance service said it had treated around 350 people, with more than 40 of those in a serious condition.

Three of the blasts were on tube trains and a fourth was on a bus. Explosives were said to have been found at two blast sites.

Below are reports from the main incident sites in order of occurrence:

8.56am - Between King's Cross and Russell Square stations

The attack with the highest confirmed death toll today was the one on a tube train travelling between King's Cross and Russell Square on the Piccadilly line, in which police said 21 people had died.

CNN quoted one emergency worker who said he had removed "several" bodies from the train and that "at least 13" remained there.

One survivor, Fiona Trueman, 26, was on the train a few minutes south of King's Cross when it exploded.

Speaking outside the Royal London hospital, Ms Trueman, who works in marketing for Sky News, said: "It was about three minutes after we left King's Cross, when there was a massive bang and there was smoke and glass everywhere. I was standing near a window, and I've still got some in my hair.

"The lights went out, and, with the smoke, we couldn't breathe, and we sort of cushioned each other during the impact because the compartment was so full.

"It felt like a dream, it was surreal.

"I was in the second carriage and I think the explosion was in the carriage in front of me, or maybe was even on the track, and the screaming from the front carriage was terrible.

"It was just horrendous; it was like a disaster movie. You can't imagine being somewhere like that - you just want to get out. I kept closing my eyes and thinking of outside. It was frightening because all the lights had gone out and we didn't hear anything from the driver, so we wondered how he was.

"Some people were very calm and were telling everybody not to panic, and after a few minutes we started to get messages that we would be unloaded from the back of the train and walked to safety. It took about 15 minutes to walk along the track to King's Cross."

Gary Lewis, 32, described the scene at King's Cross station where the injured were being treated by paramedics. He said: "People were covered in black soot and smoke. People were running everywhere and screaming. It was chaos."

9.17am - Edgware Road station

Police confirmed five people died after an explosion ripped through an underground train as it was around 100 metres from arriving at Edgware Road station.

The blast blew through a wall onto another train on an adjoining platform and in total three trains were affected.

One witness said the floor of the train he was standing on was "blown out" and other witnesses spoke of a huge hole being torn out of the floor.

The Press Association said one man was thought to have fallen through the gap and died. There were unconfirmed reports of another passenger being decapitated.

The train was heading towards Paddington when the explosion occurred. Survivors spoke of being deafened by the blast.

Another report suggested at least one passenger was blown out of the train by the force of the blast. One passenger said: "Most of us on my carriage were lucky, we just got cuts and bruises, but those next door were in real trouble."

Another survivor, Ben McCarthy, told the ITV News channel he was on the train but in a different carriage to the centre of the blast. He said: "There was a quite loud explosion a couple of carriages up from where I was. The carriages filled with smoke.

"At that stage, somebody, a man I think, was blown out of the door of the train. He was under the carriages. Everything was black, and filled with smoke for a while. We were on the train for 20 minutes to half an hour before people came down the track and gradually escorted us to Edgware Road.

"It was terrifying. People were incredibly calm but very, very shocked. The screams from the guy who was under the train obviously made the whole incident so much worse."

Tony Dodd, 39, who works for Metronet, was one of those who went to help. "It was pretty awful down there," he said. "There were bodies and people were very badly burned."

Later, speaking outside the station, Superintendent John Morgan confirmed there were "a number of fatalities" and said "things are still relatively confused".

At least 50 firefighters, 30 ambulance crews and just as many Underground first aid workers surrounded the scene. Sniffer dogs were brought in and taken below ground. The walking wounded had cuts and were suffering from smoke inhalation and covered in soot.

Inside the nearby Hilton Metropole, the entire reception and lounge bar was overrun with injured passengers. Shopping trolleys filled with medical supplies were parked near reception as a steady stream of people were treated. One man left the building with a bandage wrapped round his head and his shirt drenched in blood.

8.51am - Between Aldgate East and Liverpool Street stations

Police said seven people died in a blast on a tube train as it travelled between the Liverpool Street and Aldgate East stations, which are both in the capital's financial district.

One woman caught in the explosion said: "There were people there screaming out in agony. There were parts of the train all over the track."

Loyita Worley, 49, was on the train when the explosion went off in a nearby carriage and said the carriage that was hit was torn from "floor to ceiling".

She said she had seen some seriously injured people down in the tunnel and saw 20 to 30 "walking wounded".

This attack was the first to be reported, with police being alerted to an explosion at Liverpool Street at 8.49am. Initially it was thought that there had been separate incidents at the two stations as well as nearby Moorgate, before it became clear it happened in the tunnel between stations. The first reports said the explosion was caused by a power problem.

One of the dead and around 100 wounded people were taken to Royal London hospital in nearby Whitechapel, although it was not clear how many of these were from the Liverpool Street/Aldgate East blast and how many from other attacks. Ten people at the Royal London were described as being in a critical condition.

Hospital officials said three double-decker buses loaded with casualties were brought to the Royal London. Several other hospitals said they had received wounded people but declined to give numbers.

A man who survived the Aldgate East blast told of passengers' terror when their train ground to a halt. Arash Kazerouni, 22, said: "There was a loud bang and the train ground to a halt. People started panicking, screaming and crying as smoke came into the carriage. A man told everyone to be calm and we were led to safety along the track."

Mr Kazerouni, from Edmonton, north London, said: "Everyone was terrified when it happened. When they led us to safety, I went past the carriage where I think the explosion was. It was the second one from the front.

"The metal was all blown outwards and there were people inside being helped by paramedics. One guy was being tended outside on the track. His clothes were torn off and he seemed pretty badly burned."

9.47am - Tavistock Place, near Russell Square

A red double-decker bus exploded near Russell Square, leaving the whole of the vehicle's top floor a mangled mess, open to the sky.

Police could not give a toll of fatalities but said there were "many casualties" as a result of the explosion. Early unconfirmed reports said there were at least two dead. Reports said some of the injured had lost limbs.

The explosion went off as the bus was in Upper Woburn Square on the junction with Tavistock Place.

The Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, said a bomb had exploded on the back of the top deck. He would not comment on whether the blast was caused by a suicide bomber.

One witness told BBC Radio 5 Live: "There were at least one or two fatalities laid out on the pavement."

Bob Mills, a producer for Sky News, said: "I was one of those who had to be evacuated, walking towards Russell Square, when, suddenly, there was a huge explosion on the street up in front of me and all I could see was the top of a bus completely destroyed.

"We all heard an explosion and everything just disappeared in front of me, and I'm looking at people with blood injuries and walking away from the scene."

One woman witness said: "Some people were able to carry other people who were much more badly injured than them. There were a lot of people with terrible burns. People were starting to get very dehydrated and very unwell. When the emergency services got there they had to carry up people in blankets who had lost limbs."

Sandra Pollins, who was on the street near the bus, told the ITV News channel: "There was glass flying. Everybody ran for cover in a shop doorway. It was terrifying. It took a minute or two to compose ourselves, then we came out. I could not even recognise that it was a bus. The whole roof had been blown off. There were people just walking around with blood all over their faces.

"People lying on the ground. Absolutely terrifying. People were just staggering off that bus in a complete state. One woman I spoke to said she could not hear anything any more, her partner was still on the bus."

Debris littered the street and the facade of a nearby building was blackened and scarred by shrapnel.

je ne sais pas si vous avez vu la conférence de presse de Blair, mais j'ai trouvé très forte cette image de Blair avec les autres chefs d'état du G8 au garde-à-vous derrière lui.

AFP

7 juillet, 19h32
Londres: au moins 37 morts et 700 blessés dans les attentats (nouveau bilan)
Au moins 37 personnes ont péri dans les attentats terroristes qui ont touché Londres jeudi matin, selon un nouveau bilan communiqué par Scotland Yard en fin d'après-midi.
Quelque 700 personnes ont également été blessées dans ces attentats, a-t-on indiqué de même source.
Selon la police, 21 personnes ont trouvé la mort dans un métro de la Piccadilly Line entre les stations de King's Cross et Russell Square.
Sept autres sont mortes, également dans le métro, près de la station de Moorgate, et sept à la station de métro de Edgware Road.
Deux personnes sont mortes dans l'attentat qui a visé un bus à impériale près de Russell Square.

Oui moi aussi, mais fais gaffe on va croire qu'on est pour la chasse aux terroristes en Iran après !

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550km de bouchons à 18h ds la région Londonienne, meme topo que lorsqu'il neige, tout le monde quitte la voiture...

550km ! effrayant !! 

J'ai aussi vu les images des piétons par centaines sur les trottoirs, tous marchant dans le même sens ou presque, ça fait une impression bizarre.