Yea, that’ll do it!
A man shouting “Allahu Akbar” made people flee for their lives during a terrorism scare at a Metro station in Lausanne, Switzerland. Prosecutors say the man was suffering from a paranoid episode and presented no immediate danger to the public.
Commotion and panic erupted at the Bessieres Metro station at around 1:30 pm on Friday as the doors of a train opened and its passengers flooded out, running for the exit when a man began shouting the Arabic phrase “Allahu Akbar,” which means ‘God is great’.
“We wondered if we were going to hear an explosion behind us,” a witness told the newspaper 24 Heures.
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The phrase has also been co-opted by Islamic extremists before they carry out a terrorist attack because, in the words of 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta, it “strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers.”