France: "Pas de Vagues" (No Waves) in Oleron Terror Attack

Hat tip  Francois DeSouche

We previously reported on a car attack in L’Ile d’Oleron, France on November 5. Several people were injured, and the driver, apparently a convert to Islam, allegedly screamed, “Allahu Akhbar” during the incident and his arrest.

One of the victims, who is recovering from her injuries, has issued a press release dated November 14, in which she thanks the public for their support, but lambasts the French government for its apparent failure to declare the case an act of terrorism and assign it to the Anti-Terrorism Public Prosecutor’s Office. Her statement was posted on X by a French politician from the conservative Rassemblement National party, Pierre-Romaine Thionnet.

The statement is translated by Fousesquawk. 

Press release

For immediate dissemination

Poitiers, 14 November

Miracles exist even in our sick society

A lucky star

First of all, I just wanted to thank the thousands of French people who have expressed their support for me. Your words, your thoughts, and your prayers have greatly touched me, and it is with joy that I am able to bring you good news: I am well, and my condition is progressively getting better. I hope to have no aftereffects and that my “normal” life will resume its course.

In the opinion of many doctors at the CHU in Poitiers, the way I have recovered is a miracle. Miracle? A lucky star? A good support group (of which you are a collective part)? Or simple justice in the face of an act so cruel that I have suffered? It is for each to draw whatever conclusions and justifications they wish. 

….faced with an act of barbarism….

Looking back on the facts, Wednesday, 5 November, as I was running along a bike/pedestrian track in my community of Dolus, usually so tranquil, a man deliberately ran into me with his vehicle, throwing me about 15 meters, and leaving me literally for dead. Fortunately, my body was quickly seen and reported, allowing for a rapid-and necessary- treatment. In a state of shock, I lost consciousness, and for now, I have no precise memories of the impact. However, I think a lot of the people who were psychologically affected by finding my inert body.

This man did not attack me personally. He had just set out to kill, to make a sacrifice, supposedly, in the name of his prophet, a maximum of victims to be worthy of carefully preparing his act: the knife and the bottles of gas in his car being the proof. A morning of absolute horror.

………..terrorist

Thus, a human sacrifice, confirmed by religious texts found in his residence, and the fact that he was self-radicalized. He signed his act, pronouncing a phrase heavy in meaning for us French, especially in this period of mourning, 10 years after Bataclan: “Allahu akhbar“; everything is said, it all makes sense. So imagine my surprise to learn that the French state is so sick and so ill at ease faced with the consequences of its political choices that it still chooses the appalling and devastating strategy of “no waves”…. No waves, therefore, no referral to the Anti-Terrorism Public Prosecutor’s Office. Self-radicalization, exists in France, however, including in Oleron.

Such not making waves that the government of France almost seems to be denying the existence of this madness of November 5, and not making any contact with the victims. “We close our eyes and hope that when reopening them, nothing will exist, and the French people will have forgotten!” Fortunately however, the French people see the reality and know very well that this latest attack is not a minor incident, but is rather a societal issue.

-Emma Vallain

Source: http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2025/11/france-pas-de-vagues-no-waves-in-oleron.html