Since the mid-afternoon this Monday, December 20, 2021 in Paris, a man still retains two women hostage in the 12th arrondissement.
“The police source a priori dismisses the terrorist track. The hostage lessee, “aged about fifty years”, retains the two women “in a shop”, in the district of Bastille. “It is a hardware bazaar”, according to the police source. Man would have been identified, he presents himself as being of Tunisian origin. He would have been a magistrate in his country until 2011, ”reports in this direction.
The victims would be the manager and his 23 -year -old daughter according to a source close to the file. They would have managed to reach relatives who warned the emergency services. The police dismissed any terrorist track.
The man in his fifties would suffer from psychiatric disorders. He asked to speak with the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti and the lawyer for Omar Raddad. To explain his gesture, the man told the police negotiators, having been poisoned by his doctor, still according to French media.
Negotiations are still underway between the madman and the research and intervention brigade (BRI), which quickly arrived on rue d’Aligre, where hostage taking.
