The police put this Tuesday, December 21, 2021, a term at the hostage-taking which took place in a grocery store in the 12th arrondissement of Paris and which started yesterday Monday in the afternoon.
Two women were kidnapped by a man, presented at the beginning as a former Tunisian magistrate known in the district to have mental disorders. On Monday, shortly before 10 p.m., one of the hostages was released. The hostage lessee was arrested by the police, and the second woman was released healthy and saved.
The negotiations ended between the hostage lessee and the police since the man went on Tuesday morning and was arrested by the men of the BRI, calm. Negotiations had never stopped throughout the night from Monday to Tuesday.
According to Europe 1, it would not be an old magistrate. “If this identity could be mentioned at the start of the investigation, doubt was lifted because it was a namesake.”
However, at the beginning, some French media mentioned an ancient magistrate of Tunisian origin. In any case, the terrorist track was quickly dismissed, according to a police source.
An investigation was opened in particular by the head of “sequestration” and was entrusted to the police station of the 12th arrondissement, confirmed the Paris prosecutor’s office.
