Known to suffer from psychiatric disorders, the suspect, who was arrested Tuesday morning held since Monday afternoon a mother, manager of trade, and her daughter, in a hardware store of the 12th district.
Le Monde with AFP
A frenzied held since Monday afternoon in Paris two women under threat of a knife in a hardware store in the 12 th borough. After a hostage nearly seventeen hours, the man was arrested Tuesday morning on December 21, without injured reported. “The hostage taker was arrested. No injuries. Thanks to the agents of @prefpolice including the BIS [Brigade of Research and Intervention],” said the interior minister Gerald Darmanin on Twitter.
Known to be suffering from psychiatric disorders, the suspect, 56, detained since 15 h 30 two women, a mother, manager of trade and daughter. He first released unharmed mother shortly before 22 pm, after lengthy negotiations conducted by the BIS. These continued throughout the night in the hardware of the street Aligre, near the Bastille, which had entrenched the hostage taker, before his arrest shortly after 8 hours and the release of the second hostage, also unharmed.
The prefect of police in Paris, Didier Lallement, arrived on site late in the night. “It’s always extremely difficult to deal with an individual who has a knife, threatening people, but it eventually see reason,” he told the press, after the intervention, the Commissioner of Police, accompanied the prosecutor of Paris, Laure Beccuau. The madman, “apparently unbalanced” and that it was “difficult to treat”, has “agreed to go out” at dawn, said the prefect of police.
Hostages “very shocked”
An investigation was initiated including the head of “sequestration with plurality of victims” but “deliberate release” and was assigned to the 2 th DYP (district police). “The investigation will lead to identify the profile in question, that the state of my information is not someone who has been a Tunisian magistrate as he seems it was rumored some time. He is someone whose psychological state appears fragile, again it is on this point that his health will bear the investigation, “said his side the prosecutor of Paris. The mother and daughter, sequestered in a “family business”, are “very upset,” said Laure Beccuau, citing “delicate negotiations”.
Given the psychiatric profile hostage taker, terrorist track was quickly ruled out, according to a police source. He was especially known police for harassing a local doctor in his medical practice. After breaking into the shop, which he had brought down the iron curtain, the man first asked to “speak to the Minister of Justice”, Eric Dupond-Moretti, according to police sources. “Following the hostage taking in the 12 th arrondissement, the minister obviously has told the negotiators he stood to them”, had said the entourage of the Minister of Justice .
The frenzied also met, at his request, with Sylvie Noachovitch, counsel for the former gardener Omar Raddad convicted in 1994 for the murder of a wealthy widow, Ghislaine Marchal, in Mougins (Alpes-Maritimes ). Justice ordered Thursday to revive the investigations in this case, the first step before the retrial. He wanted her to defend him because he thought he was “poisoned” by his doctor but “in no case speak for Omar Raddad,” confirmed the lawyer, adding have been dealing with someone “in large suffering, totally desperate, that feels very sick. “
The security perimeter, which blocked for the duration of the hostage taking different access to the street Aligre, known for its numerous food shops and market, was largely lifted shortly after 9 hours and the district resumed a normal life, said a journalist from Agence France-Presse.