UA “drug addict” and suicidal man, armed with a knife and who had holed up for three hours with employees in his parents' pizzeria in Issy-les-Moulineaux, was arrested, and his hostages freed.
The four employees of this pizzeria located a few meters from the Paris ring road were released by the police shortly before 4 p.m., a police source told AFP.
“The intervention is completed”, there are “no injuries”, specified this source.
The alleged perpetrator, “with a drug addict profile”, according to a source close to the case, had locked himself in his parents' restaurant, located a few meters from the Paris ring road, shortly before 1:00 p.m.
According to the police source, he had already “committed similar acts” at home in 2022 “with the threat of suicide”.
There was no “clientele or public” in the restaurant with him.
Personnel from the BRI (Research and Intervention Brigade, an elite unit of the Parisian police) were quickly deployed on site, including a mediator, “hired because of the person concerned's desire to commit suicide”, indicated the police source.
Negotiations were carried out before the police intervened.
The man, aged around 35-40 years old according to a source close to the case, is also not known to the courts.
