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Wow, Pauline Marois was just taken off-stage mid-victory speech by her security team.

Posted by Roger More (aka Rogermore) Sep 4 '12, 21:07

She's back speaking now though - whatever happened, someone is in custody now.

Responses:

Montreal Police Twitter feed. -- (link) - Mop Sep 4, 22:51
Watch the video on CBC. At the 0:05 mark, look just to the immediate right of Marois. -- (link) - Name Withheld By Request Sep 4, 22:38 8
- Holy...! -- nm - Mop Sep 4, 22:45
- It does look like a hole, and it does look like it appears just as she tilts her head ... yikes. - Beryllium Sep 4, 22:42 6
  - Of course. That's why I want to see what comes out tomorrow. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Sep 4, 22:43 5
    - It's making some news on the U.S. outlets. Front page of CNN.com. -- nm - Mop Sep 4, 22:49
    - Just idle chatter tonight, but the confirmed victim was a techniti0an. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Sep 4, 22:47 3
      - SFEK... A technician. Possibly back stage at the time? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Sep 4, 22:47 2
        
        PQ saffers -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Sep 4, 23:41 1
        
        PQ staffers confirm: No hole in backdrop. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Sep 4, 23:41
Report is one victim has died. -- nm - Mop Sep 4, 22:03 1
- Yep, CBC tweeted such -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 22:04
Update - now rumor has it, 2 people were shot, not burned ... -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 4, 21:37 7
- Are people going to have to speak French now? is that the lady that won? -- nm - Bacon via droid Sep 4, 21:43 6
  - expect sound and fury. and very little action. -- nm - mafic Sep 4, 21:48 3
    - Support for sovereignty is at about 28%, which has got to be an all time low. Best she could do is nudge it into the 30's. -- nm - Mop Sep 4, 21:50 1
      - And the PQ only got 1% more than the Liberals in the popular vote. -- nm - Mop Sep 4, 21:54
    - expect .. politics! -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 21:48
  - The sovereignty-supporting party won a minority victory. So ... sort of? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 21:44
  - She got a minority, so nothing changes. -- nm - Mop Sep 4, 21:44
Shot fired from a starter pistol, according to this article. -- (link) - Mop Sep 4, 21:28
Deflected bad press from the last couple of days over French nationalists by making her look sympathetic! -- nm - Mop Sep 4, 21:25
Extraordinary rendition! Extraordinary rendition! -- nm - David Sep 4, 21:18 2
- I think we have prisons in nunavut. Fairly certain. - Beryllium Sep 4, 21:24 1
  - "there is no stockades, no guard tower, no electronic frontier" -- (link) - Remlik Sep 4, 21:35 [youtube]
"appears to be carrying rifle or stun gun" ... that could have got real nasty, real fast. Yikes. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 21:08 10
- starter pistol, is what I'm hearing. -- nm - Reagen Sep 4, 21:11 6
  - "Oh cripes - now there's been a fire set behind the club where the PQ has gathered - this is not cool" -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 4, 21:13 5
    - Local news radio story with picture of suspect. -- (link) - Mop Sep 4, 21:54 1
      - Memo to Marois: Get tougher looking bodyguards. -- (link) - Mop Sep 4, 21:56
    - Fire is out. Two people injured, one person arrested. -- nm - Roger More Sep 4, 21:17 2
      - They're in critical condition, apparently -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 21:29 1
        
        Yeah, that's not good :( -- nm - Roger More Sep 4, 21:32
- (Also, I'm not sure how you confuse those two... I mean, I get general confusion, but *those* two? Hmm.) -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 21:09 2
  - cattle prod maybe? -- nm - mafic Sep 4, 21:13 1
    - ... maybe those should be standard issue in parliament ... would make CPAC more fun -- nm - Beryllium Sep 4, 21:13

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