A KNIFE-wielding man has been arrested after taking multiple people hostage inside a pizza restaurant in Paris.
The man was said to be holding at least the employees of Pizza L’Olivier restaurant in Issy-les-Moulineaux hostage.
AFPPolice officers block the road near the restaurant Pizza L’Olivier in Issy-les-Moulineaux, suburbs of Paris[/caption]
AFPFrench National Police Search and Intervention Brigade officers (BRI) stand outside the restaurant in the suburbs of Paris[/caption]
ReutersPolice members work outside the pizza restaurant[/caption]
It is understood they all have now been released.
Dozens of cop cars and ambulances rushed to the tense scene while authorities locked down the street in a siege.
The suspect is said to be a drug addict very known to the police “for cases of narcotics, outrage, violence and rebellion”, according to Le Parisien.
Authorities familiar with the situation said the man called his mother to tell her that he was “in need of cocaine”.
She is then understood to have alerted the police.
A press release posted earlier from the restaurant’s management said: “A hostage situation is currently taking place in our restaurant in Issy-les-Moulineaux.
“Four people are being held inside by a man who is expressing suicidal thoughts […] we would like to inform you that there are no customers among the hostages, only employees.”
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