The man who on the afternoon of Monday 20 December, armed with a knife, had held in hostage two women for hours in a shop Paris he has been arrested. It was released also the second woman in the morning, while the first had already been released after a few hours. “There are no injuries. Thanks to the agents and in particular to special forces“, Wrote the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin on Twitter. Shortly thereafter, the mayor of Paris: “The hostages are safe and sound,” he declared Anne Hidalgo.
The 56-year-old of Tunisian origin, Abderaman B.J., was already known to the police and, according to the first reconstructions, suffers from psychic problems. At around 4pm on Monday, he walked into the shop Go Shop at 21 rue d’Aligre, near the Bastille, and took the hostage holder and the 23 year old daughter. According to Le Parisien, i negotiators special forces negotiated overnight to arrive at the release. The prefect of the Paris police, Didier Lallement, he said he was satisfied because in the end the man accepted the surgery.
According to reports from the French newspaper, at first Abderaman asked to speak with the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupont-Moretti, then he changed his mind and wanted to contact theIranian embassy to then deliver a message to government French. According to Agence France-press (Afp), at the basis of his gesture there would have been the reopening of the case on the 1994 murder of Ghislaine Marchal, a Mougins, on the Maritime Alps. Abderaman got to speak con Sylvie Noachovitch, lawyer of the former gardener Omar Raddad, convicted already condemned for the death of the widow. Only last week he was asked to restart the investigations, a first step towards the revision of the process.
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