hostage taking in progress, a man holed up in a restaurant

A hostage taking is underway in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine), this Saturday, November 16, according to information from Agence France Presse, citing the Paris fire brigade. A man, armed with a knife, “is holed up” in his father's restaurant where he “has three or four employees”, according to a police source cited by AFP. On the other hand, there is “neither clientele nor public”.

He locked himself in this restaurant a few dozen meters from the Paris ring road, southwest of the capital, just before 1 p.m.

An important device law enforcement frames the restaurant a few dozen meters from the Paris ring road, noted AFP journalists. A mediator from the BRI (Research and Intervention Brigade, elite unit of the Parisian police) is “hired” due to “of the interested party's desire to commit suicide“He is not known to the courts.

Numerous police vehicles, as well as helmeted and armed officers, block the streets and establish a security perimeter in the neighborhood.

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