Police: 2 Hostages Held in Jewelry Shop in Southern France
Source: AP
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSJAN. 9, 2015, 1:13 P.M. E.S.T.
PARIS A police officer says two hostages are being held by a gunman in a jewelry store in the southern French city of Montpellier.
The officer, who could not be named speaking about an ongoing situation, said the attacker has locked himself inside the downtown shop, with police ready to intervene outside.
He said it is unclear whether the hostage-taking is related to the massacre Wednesday in Paris at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that left 12 people dead.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/01/09/world/europe/ap-eu-france-jewelry-store-hostages.html
Warpy
(111,277 posts)It would tie all this stuff into a nice, neat package.
The danger is that it's a copycat crime by a wannabe with no ties to anything but a computer. Those guys are harder to ID and follow.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)doesn't seem to have an ending.
Mass
(27,315 posts)Ordinary criminality did not stop in the last few days.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)uppityperson
(115,677 posts)brooklynite
(94,598 posts)"Officials have said that there is no link whatsoever with terrorism or events in Paris but panic reportedly spread through the city centre, where passers-by and shoppers were evacuated from nearby streets and street lights were turned off, leaving it in the glow of emergency vehicles lights."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/gunman-holding-hostages-at-jewellery-shop-in-french-city-of-montpellier-9969270.html