Hostage taking in progress in Issy-les-Moulineaux, a man holed up in his father’s restaurant

A man armed with a knife is holed up in his father’s restaurant in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine), a close suburb of Paris, with “three or four employees”, and the police are on site, a police source told AFP this Saturday.

“Three or four employees”

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

A little earlier, the Paris fire brigade (BSPP) had indicated to AFP that the entrenched man “detains a few employees”. What the police source confirms: he retains “three or four employees”, but there is neither “customer nor public”, she specified.

A BIS mediator on site

A mediator from the BRI (Research and Intervention Brigade, an elite unit of the Paris police) is “hired, due to the person concerned’s desire to commit suicide”. He is not known to the courts.

A large police force surrounds the restaurant a few dozen meters from the Paris ring road, AFP journalists noted. “Intervention in progress, let the security and emergency forces work,” wrote the police headquarters on course “.

On AFPTV images, we can see numerous police vehicles and armed, helmeted law enforcement officers blocking the streets and establishing a security perimeter in the neighborhood.