Still in shock after the Paris attack, what was those victims offence, the world is no longer safe to go a restaurant to unwind and eat, where going to a concert to listen and dance to your favourite band play, and even going to the stadium to watch a football match has turn deadly. Where is the world heading to, who will stop these barbarians who have fun in hunting and killing human beings all in the name of a religion.
Paul Hayward wrote recently about watching a moment of magic by Lionel Messi during a Barcelona match that helped to lift his spirit while battling cancer. to him sport is a vehicle for optimism and hope. People's feeling about going to the stadium to watch a match as a sort of haven , a place to escape and forget about troubles of the world and lose yourself to the passion of the game.
I think this is why those terrorist decided to choose the stadium as one of their targets.
So on Friday the 13th, these animals who have no value for human life's decides to carry out their barbaric acts by targeting the friendly match between France and Germany at the Stade de France were the French President was in attendance this match was played to prepare the French national team for the next European championship. So if not for the the President security details the death toil at the stadium would have been much more than 3 but thank God the attack was repelled. Some reports suggested that the attacker tried to gain entrance to stadium so as to wreck havoc and destroy the 1998 world cup memories and replace that beautiful event with something very terrible.
In the end the stadium served as a place of shelter, fans were advised to stay after the game ended because it was not safe outside. The German team stayed over night because their safety was not guaranteed, their hotel was also checked before the game after it was warned that a bomb might have been planted there. So instead of risking their life back to the hotel they decided to spend the night at the stadium and took a flight back to Germany very early in the morning. Joachim Low the German coach says his side were pretty shaken up prior to the match due to a bomb threat so am just trying to imagine what they were feeling when they heard the first bomb go off.
The terrorist might think they won after killing about 129 people but they cant kill the spirit of the world when we all come together and stand and fight against these people. The war against terrorism must be won and fast because the rate at which people are dying is alarming. Nigerians are still fighting against Boko Haram, the Chibok girls kidnapped have still not been found and also Lebanon are battling terrorist holds a day.
Lord God all we are asking for is World Peace, this killings has to stop. My prayer goes out to the victims family i pray that Go will give them the strength to overcome these tragic loss, they most be going through alot right now. And to those injured speedy recovery. May God have mercy on us.
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