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“Tell My Children I Love Them,” France Attack Victim Said Before Death

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“Tell My Children I Love Them,” France Attack Victim Said Before Death

French president Emmanuel Macron vowed his united states of america might stand corporation towards non secular extremists after a knife-wielding guy killed 3 human beings at a church, withinside the united states of america’s 2nd assault blamed on Islamist terrorism this month.
France will not “surrender on our values,” Macron stated in Nice, after a Tunisian migrant went on a close to 30 minutes rampage with a 30-centimetre (12-inch) knife, focused on human beings praying withinside the southern city’s Notre-Dame basilica.
A 60-year-antique lady died withinside the church and the frame of a guy, a 55-year-antique church employee, changed into observed nearby, his throat additionally slit.
Another lady, a 44-year-antique Brazilian who had fled the church to a close-by restaurant, died rapidly afterwards from more than one knife wounds.
“Tell my youngsters I love them,” she controlled to mention earlier than her death, in step with French cable channel BFM TV.
The assailant, who changed into shot and wounded with the aid of using police, changed into diagnosed as 21-year-antique Brahim Aouissaoui, who arrived in Italy closing month, then travelled to France, judicial reassets stated.
Aouissaoui who had a duplicate of the Koran and 3 knives with him, shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) while approached with the aid of using police who shot and significantly wounded him, France’s anti-terror prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard instructed a press conference.
Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi instructed reporters on the scene the attacker “stored repeating ‘Allahu Akbar’ even whilst beneathneath medication” as he changed into taken to hospital.
The church killings come after the October sixteen beheading in a Paris suburb of records trainer Samuel Paty with the aid of using an extremist after Paty confirmed students cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in a unfastened speech lesson.
Macron defended the cartoons and the proper to mock religion, sparking massive anger towards France withinside the Islamic global and numerous campaigns in Muslim-majority nations to boycott French products.
Daniel Conilh, a 32-year-antique waiter at Nice’s Grand Café de Lyon, a block from the church, stated it changed into rapidly earlier than 9:00 am while “pictures have been fired and all of us took off running”.
“A lady got here in immediately from the church and stated, ‘Run, run, a person has been stabbing human beings’,” he instructed AFP.
French anti-terror prosecutors are coping with the inquiry into prices associated with a “terrorist murder”.
The police who shot Aouissaoui had “with none doubt avoided an excellent better toll,” stated leader prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard, including investigators had observed unused knives in a bag on the scene.
The killings, which befell in advance of the Catholic holy day of All Saints Day on Sunday, caused the authorities to elevate the phobia alert degree to the maximum “emergency” degree nationwide.
France has been on excessive alert because the January 2015 bloodbath on the satirical weekly mag Charlie Hebdo marked the start of a wave of jihadist assaults which have killed extra than 250 human beings.
Tensions have heightened considering the fact that closing month, while the trial opened for 14 suspected accomplices in that assault.
The paper marked the begin of the courtroom docket lawsuits with the aid of using republishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that infuriated hundreds of thousands of Muslims worldwide – the equal caricatures that trainer Samuel Paty used as lesson material.
Days after the trial opened, an 18-year-antique guy from Pakistan significantly injured human beings with a meat cleaver out of doors Charlie Hebdo’s former places of work in Paris.
In Nice, Macron introduced expanded surveillance of church buildings with the aid of using France’s Sentinelle army patrols, to be reinforced to 7,000 troops from 3,000.
Security at colleges might additionally be boosted, he stated.
But a few declare Macron is unfairly focused on France’s predicted 5 to 6 million Muslims – the most important network in Europe.
Macron on Thursday entreated human beings of all religions to unite and not “supply in to the spirit of division”.

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Winner of BTS’ Jungkook lookalike competition in Chicago is an all-too-familiar face as ‘lore runs deep’

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Winner of BTS’ Jungkook lookalike competition in Chicago is an all-too-familiar face as ‘lore runs deep’

On Sunday, The BTS Jungkook lookalike contest winner was crowned in Chicago. Impersonators sporting his signature piercings and tattoos swarmed the venue.

Social media personality Andrew Alexander, who’s previously been documented as sharing “striking similarities” with BTS’ Jungkook, won the K-pop star-focussed lookalike competition in Chicago on Sunday, November 24, 2024. (Instagram )

The chain reaction set off by YouTuber Anthony Po’s super-viral Timothée Chalamet look-alike contest in Manhattan on October 27, led fans to the K-pop chapter of this journey a month later.

On Sunday, November 24, the new US trend surrounding celebrity lookalike contests saw BTS’ Jungkook enthusiasts turning up for registration in droves. As the Hindustan Times (and several other outlets) previously reported, the event held at Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chicago, Illinois, handed out a $20 cash prize and a bottle of Soju to the winner. As it turned out, some older fans of the K-pop septet already knew the much-debated winner of the anticipated turnout.

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A flurry of fan-shared videos and photos popped up online on Sunday (US time), capturing the three finalists in action as the trio, like other Jungkook impersonators showed up dressed in variations of black outfits. Ultimately, Andrew Alexander, a widely renowned YouTube sensation, was crowned the winner. Even if the name doesn’t ring a bell, some BTS fans will remember the content creator from a years-old YouTube video, in which his sister “turned” him into the beloved K-pop group’s maknae.

Who is Andrew Alexander, the winner of Chicago’s Jungkook lookalike competition?

According to the social media personality’s YouTube videos, Andrew is a third-year university student living in California. He clearly flew into Chicago, especially for the Jungkook contest scheduled this week.

Over four years ago, Alexander’s sister, Ashley, posted a video titled “I turned my brother into BTS Jungkook,” as she highlighted how “a lot of people say he looks like” the K-pop star. Given their “striking similarities,” as reflected not only their resemblance (though not validated by a lot of fans) but also their mannerisms, Andrew’s other sister (presumably), Amber, said at the time, “It’s so funny every video we post, there’s at least 20 new people that are like ‘I don’t know if anyone’s ever said this but, Andrew looks like Jungkook’”.

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However, Andrew himself did not admit to the similarities. That didn’t stop BTS fan pages from drawing comparisons between him and the BTS singer.

In a video posted before the viral winning announcement, Andrew’s sister documented the scene at the competition venue. Ashley wrote confirmed in the caption, “He flew from LA we flew from NY.” Ironically, the ultimate Jungkook lookalike contest participant was also registered as #7, a number that holds great emotional significance in the BTS fandom, given the group’s member count.

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A netizen who’d had been a longtime fan of the Alexander siblings clan – all YouTube personalities – commented on one of Andrew’s posts on November 24, “been a fan since 2018,” as they added a reference to Ashley’s YouTube channel “ur mom ashley.”

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In yet another video posted by Amber Alexander, she also recorded the full-circle moment: “He flew all the way from California for this (crying emoji) after years of getting comments saying he looks like Jungkook @andrewalexander WON THE LOOKALIKE COMPETITION.”

Hours before show time, Ashley also took to her TikTok profile (@aaashleyk), showing a behind-the-scenes glimpse at how the family ‘Jungkook-ified’ Andrew by drawing the pop star’s famously known hand tattoos and suggesting that he needed a lip ring as well. For his final look, Andrew also showed up with Jungkook’s eyebrow and ear piercings. 

Fans react to the winner being crowned for the lookalike contest

While some instantly approved the decision with comments like “Andrew is actually the ONLY one who looked like jungkook, the others literally have no similarity at all,” others who probably never tracked the siblings’ years-old digital footprints were lost why this win was especially gaining momentous traction online.

“If Andrew didn’t win, I would have hosted another one to make sure he won,” someone else wrote in the comments. Others quipped along the lines of how Jungkook had returned from the military and “Kinda crazy how they let Jungkook win his own lookalike competition.”

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Those familiar with Andrew’s journey, definitely agreed with how the contest “cooked” with its final decision, especially since “the lore runs deep.” Who could’ve known that this was years in the making at a time when lookalike contests weren’t a norm?

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