Lhe detainee who was holding five people hostage has surrendered. This Friday, January 3, several employees of Arles prison were taken hostage by a prisoner with a bladed weapon who was arrested. No injuries were reported.
“The hostage taker from the Arles central house was arrested immediately. No injuries. Thank you to the prison administration teams and the Raid police officers for their intervention,” said the Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, on X.
The hostage taker from the Arles central house was immediately arrested. No injuries. Thank you to the prison administration teams and the RAID police officers for their intervention.@BrunoRetailleau
— Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) https://twitter.com/GDarmanin/status/1875192943897960532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Since Friday January 3 at the end of the morning, an inmate with an unstable psychiatric profile threatened four members of the medical staff and a guard at the Arles penitentiary center. The man was holed up in the prison infirmary, where he was receiving treatment after having injured his hand during a fight. A first hostage, a doctor, was released around 3 p.m. before the prisoner finally surrendered.
Earlier, Gérald Darmanin had assured that “all means” were deployed to put an end to the hostage-taking. The Raid as well as the Eris (regional intervention and security teams) and the police services were mobilized.
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