mmmm! I wonder!!!

[Rhona]

Eleven people have been injured jumping out of a second-floor flat window after apparently thinking they had seen the devil.

11 Hurt In Plunge 'Fleeing From Devil'
Police are investigating the incident which took place in the early hours in the small town of La Verriere, west of Paris.

Officers said some of the injured were children including a four-month-old baby, who is in a serious condition in a children's hospital in the French capital.

"Thirteen people were in an apartment on the second floor when, at around 3am, one of the occupants heard his child crying," said Odile Faivre, the deputy prosecutor in Versailles.

"The man in question, of African origin, who was completely naked, got up to feed his child, at which point the other occupants took him for the devil.

"He was seriously wounded in the hand after being stabbed with a knife before he was thrown out of the apartment, via the door."

The 30-year-old man then tried to force his way back into the room.

"That's when the other occupants tried to escape by jumping out of the window, panicked by a fear of the devil," said Ms Faivre.

Police are questioning the naked man as well as another man who jumped from the window with a two-year-old girl in his arms.

Seven of those injured - who were African, possibly from Angola - were taken to hospital for emergency treatment.

Detectives are trying to find out if the group jumped voluntarily or were forced to jump.

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

I could not help to laugh hysterically when reading this ...

Hmmmmm  -  apparrently the tokolosh wonders the dark corners of Paris (the city of loooove) as well ...

I know it is serious, but I could not help laughing !!  It is just too funny not to !!

[Rhona]

  I giggled too Dalene

Another story that caught my eye - again from France............
French police say an 18-month-old boy has survived a fall from an eighth-floor window of a Paris apartment by bouncing off an awning and into someone's arms, apparently uninjured.

Police say they have detained the parents of the baby boy for questioning.

According to police, the parents had gone for a stroll on Monday, a French holiday, and left the 18-month-old with his three-year-old sister in the family apartment in eastern Paris.

Police said Tuesday the little boy somehow had access to an open window and fell out. He hit an awning of a ground-floor restaurant then bounced into the arms of a passer-by.

They said no injuries were uncovered by initial medical exams

[Bertie Horak]

What's the little guy's name - MacGyver or 007 perhaps?