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French cowardice knows no bounds

27 August 2015

1:00 PM

27 August 2015

1:00 PM

Boy, am I glad I’m not a Frenchman. Last week’s dramatic incident on board a Paris-bound train, in which a terrorist atrocity was narrowly averted by a group of heroic passengers, is a stain on French manhood to rival the Battle of Agincourt.

I’m not referring to the incompetence of the French security services, who seem unable to stop terrorists roaming the country, shooting people at will.

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