Hostage-taking in Paris 12th district: the madman arrested, no injured – Linternaute.com

The man who had taken two women hostage yesterday in Paris, in a bazaar in the 12th arrondissement, was arrested this Tuesday morning by the police. The operation left no injuries.

[Mis à jour le 21 décembre 2021 à 08h39] The agents of the Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) managed this Tuesday, December 21 to question the man who was still holding hostages a woman this morning in a bazaar in the 12th arrondissement, in the Aligres district. The police intervened before daybreak to put an end to the sequestration which had lasted since yesterday afternoon and to the negotiations which seemed to be deadlocked. The man wanted to meet the Minister of Justice, Xavier Dupond-Moretti and the lawyer of Omar Raddad.

The intervention of the police, obviously facilitated by the state of fatigue of the madman according to information from France Info, made it possible to avoid any act of violence: no injuries are to be reported, the person who was still detained this night and this morning was taken care of “safe and sound” by the police and then by the emergency services on the spot.

In the middle of the afternoon Monday, at Paris, a man equipped with a bladed weapon took two women hostage in the heart of the 12th arrondissement of the capital, in the busy district of Aligres. At around 10 p.m., the man freed one of his two captives. The latter is unharmed. This sector located between Place de la Bastille and Place de la Nation to the east of the capital was cordoned off by the police from 3 p.m. This Tuesday morning, police officers should quickly lift the security perimeters. The man was quickly identified by investigators.

The name of the man who retained the two women in a business is therefore known to the police. According to information from a journalist from Point, it would be a Tunisian aged 56, who would have been a magistrate in Tunisia. The man suffers according to this source from various psychiatric antecedents. Several media report that the individual is plagued by mental disorders.

While the Vigipirate plan in France is at the “enhanced security – risk of attack” level, the fears of the authorities are all the more numerous with the approach of the end of year celebrations. But there is no connection between any history of terrorism and the current hostage-taking which has ended. The track was quickly ruled out in view of the profile of the madman.