The restaurant was pretty full at the time of the attack.
(Mail Online)
The 22-year-old man was arrested at the scene.
He suffered lacerations to his eye and some facial burning.
It was a nail bomb.
The Evening Standard reported:
A restaurant customer has been injured in a suspected nail bomb attack on a city centre restaurant.The Times Online and Infidel Blogger's Alliance have more.
The exploded shortly after a man entered the Giraffe Restaurant in the Princesshay shopping centre in Exeter, Devon.
The customer was taken to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and the area has been sealed off by police.
It sounds like the man was in a locked toilet when the bomb went off prematurely.
...Maybe he was putting on the suicide vest?
Get this... Authorities are questioning whether it was an animal rights activist!
The Mail Online reported:
Special branch detectives are investigating whether the real target may have been another shop in the area, possibly one which sells products which are tested on animals.Yeah... Those animal rights extremists are blowing themselves up right and left these days!
There have been attacks on shopping centres in the West Country over the past 25 years which have been linked to animal rights extremists.
Pastorius reported that 2 additional devices were found in the area.
UPDATE: Guess what?... It wasn't an animal rights extremist, after all.
Bomber is a young white male and a Muslim convert.
Imagine that?
UPDATE 2: The bomber was identified as Nicky Reilly.
Hat Tip Joanne
I hear they have found multiple devices now.
ReplyDeleteNot a London restaurant: as the article plainly states, it's in Exeter, Devon.
ReplyDeleteYou might want to amend your headline. Exeter is about as far away from London (160 miles) as Boston from New York
ReplyDeleteThanks- corrected.
ReplyDeleteCan we have a "guess the religious or cultural background" contest?
ReplyDeleteI demand the authorities do something about the Buddhist extremists infiltrating our countries.
ReplyDeleteWhat? Probably not Buddhists?
East Asian Yoot.
ReplyDeleteIt costs nothing to these "authorities" to speculate as to whether it was vegetarian or a presbyterian until such time as the actual background of lil' Mohammad becomes public, and it costs a lot to report the actual facts on the ground as they know him. We'll be hearing them say, "He may be a Native American" soon.
ReplyDeleteactually, it's perfectly reasonable to think it is an animal rights activist.
ReplyDeletethe movement has become increasingly extremist over the years.
admittedly, it's improbably, but it's not impossible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad4fagTyaM4
ReplyDeleteI read that they've started using gelatin from pig carcasses as a plasticizing agent in C4. Is that true?
ReplyDeletePETAns and ROPers both may be switching to the store brand plastic explosives when this tidbit leaks out.
"There were claims the suspect was a Muslim convert and detectives are now trying to determine whether he has links to Islamic extremism." by linked article
ReplyDeleteThere is a Muslim convert in my area, and if I ever see that person board a plane without their hijab on, I'll report them to the authorities before they can utter praise to their God for anything.
Shouldn't a failed suicide bombing attempt be an automatic death sentence?
ReplyDeleteI mean, the perpetrator could haradly argue that death is an unfair punishment, considering that he/she was willing ot die in the first place.
Sorry... I keep looking for the rational world.
"Giraffe is a national chain of restaurants which are popular with families as they encourage children by giving out balloons and crayons."
ReplyDeleteThankfully it was a deranged man who succeded in injuring only himself. What do these nut cases have against the free world? perhaps they feel we are enjoying the pleasures of paradise in this world !!!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1021187/Muslim-convert-held-nail-bomb-blast-restaurant.html
ReplyDelete"A Muslim convert with a history of mental illness was being held tonight after two bombs were found in a family restaurant toilet following an explosion at lunchtime.
Police and bomb disposal teams were called in after Nicky Reilly, 22, apparently attempted to detonate a nail bomb.
Mr Reilly, who suffered serious facial injuries in the blast, is thought to have carried out the attempted attack after being 'preyed upon and radicalised' by Islamic extremists."
Like we haven't all heard of hard-line extremists using the mentally-ill before.
It's distraction tactics. The government will now focus on this petty bomb and divert from the countries economic plight. We will aso see our liberty disappearing even more now with new laws put in place
ReplyDeleteread LONDONISTAN. None of this is a surprise...
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDelete"It's distraction tactics. The government will now focus on this petty bomb"
Is it still a "petty," bomb if it detonates and kills a restaurant full of people?
I love when they refer to national security as a distraction or a scare tactic. You see for most of us, we can live through a chuggish economy but we have to be able to live in order to do so.
It is not a distraction. It is not a scare tactic. It is a basic right that all else stems from.
Oh yes. Coz it is a bamb I'll vote Labour next election!
ReplyDeleteCome on - get a life. These people (mental or not) or are REAL threat to us all and must be stopped in someway.
The upsetting thing is this will have a real backlash against any religion locally (Devon) and people are so keen to blame religion rather than the sick scumbags who actually believ in this stuff.
Exeter is a large suburb of the Bournemouth-Plymouth-Weston-Super-Mare city complex. Get your facts right!
ReplyDeleteLondistan extremists were all sunnis but the suicide bomb guy was a shiite extremist, he was once a she and sunnis don't recruite transexuals.
Anon- Where did you hear that Nicky was once a she?
ReplyDeleteI didn't see that anywhere.