Issy-les-Moulineaux. Hostage taking in progress, 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), with “three or four employees”, and the police are on site, a police source said on Saturday .

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.

“Three or four employees” retained

He retains “three or four employees”, but there is neither “clientele nor public”, said the source. 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 pizzeria. “Intervention in progress, let the security and emergency forces work,” wrote the police headquarters on course “.

On site, numerous police vehicles and armed, helmeted law enforcement officers blocked the streets and established a security perimeter in the neighborhood.