French hostage taker arrested, police sayJuly 10, 2012 - 16:42 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The armed man, who took a parent hostage at a French school in a southeastern Paris suburb but released his captive after negotiations, was then arrested by police, a police source said, according to AFP. The incident in Vitry-sur-Seine started at around 0500 GMT when three children and five adults, including two parents, were in the school, which is being used as a leisure centre during the holidays, police said. All children and adults except for one parent quickly left the school, a judicial source said, denying reports that any children had been briefly taken hostage. The hostage was released safe and sound. "The hostage was freed by the (elite police unit) RAID. Negotiations continued with the hostage taker. He came out of the site around five minutes ago and was detained by RAID police. He is uninjured," local prefect Pierre Dartout told journalists. A judicial source said the man had "made incoherent statements and expressed a desire to die", during negotiations, adding that the hostage taker had "at no point been threatening" with the parent held captive. Police union representative Ludovic Monnier described the man as around 30 years old and of African origin. Fellow police union representative Ludovic Magne told journalists the man asked to be "killed by police" and had two handguns. Around 100 people were evacuated from the neighborhood during the hostage taking, a police source said, asking not to be named. Top stories Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Moscow on April 22 to hold talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". Partner news | Get Started: An educational platform for young startuppers The Get Started program which operates in two phases is an important platform for young startuppers. Byblos Bank Armenia celebrates Students' Day with scholarship recipients YSU students who received scholarships from Byblos Bank Armenia gathered in a casual setting to meet with the Bank's CEO, Hayk Stepanyan. Azerbaijan extends Rune Vardanyan’s arrest by 5 months A court in Azerbaijan has extended the arrest of former Nagorno-Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan by five months. Armenia border residents dissatisfied with delimitation Residents Kirants are dissatisfied with the results of the delimitation of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. |