A man armed with a knife is cut off in his father’s restaurant, “L’Olivier”, in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine) this Saturday, November 16. According to a police source, the man took refuge with “three or four employees”. “But there is neither clientele nor public,” in this pizzeria located a few dozen meters from the Paris ring road, southwest of the capital.
A mediator from the BRI (Research and Intervention Brigade, elite unit of the Parisian police) is “engaged, due to the person concerned’s desire to commit suicide“. A few hours after the start of the hostage situation, the man was finally arrested, according to information from RTL confirming BFMTV. The hostages were released.
Personnel from the BRI (Research and Intervention Brigade, an elite unit of the Paris police) were deployed on site, including a mediator, “committed due to the person concerned’s desire to commit suicide“, specifies the police source. The role of the mediators is to enter into negotiations with the madmen. The man, aged around 35-40 years according to a source close to the case, is also not not known to the courts.
The individual would be known “for similar acts committed at his home in 2022 with threat of suicide“, specifies a police source at RTL.
Choukri, a restaurant employee, arrived to take his shift. Faced with the aggressiveness of the owner’s son, he preferred to leave the premises, escaping the hostage-taking. “He hit the bartender,” he told RTL. “He started shouting at me, he broke glasses and plates. I told him: ‘I want to go home, I can’t work like that.’ […] Behind me, he tapped me on my back with his feet.”
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