A hostage taking is underway in Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris, this Saturday, November 16, according to a source close to the matter at CNEWS. The owner of a restaurant is entrenched in his establishment and has several employees. The neighborhood is cordoned off by the police.
A man armed with a knife was holed up in his restaurant in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine) this Tuesday, November 16, we learned from a source close to the matter. According to our information, four people are currently inside the establishment, potentially detained by the owner of the premises, who is threatening to commit suicide. The man is not known to the courts.
He retains “three or four employees”, but there is neither “clientele nor public”, specified the source. A mediator from the BRI (Research and Intervention Brigade, an elite unit of the Parisian police) is “hired, due to the person concerned’s desire to commit suicide”. A large police force surrounds the restaurant a few dozen meters from the Paris ring road. Snipers arrived on scene.
“Intervention in progress, let the security and emergency forces work,” wrote the police headquarters on X, repeating a message from the town of Issy-les-Moulineaux, speaking of an “incident in progress”.
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