Friday, January 9, 2015

More?

Hostages have been taken in a jewellery store in Montpellier, Southern France. The new incident is evolving shortly after hostages were freed in Paris and Charlie Hebdo suspects killed in Northern France.

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According to Montpellier prosecutor Christophe Barret, cited by Midi Libre, the situation is "very calm" and there is no reason to connect the siege in Montpellier with the events in Paris and in Northern France.

“It was a robbery, it has nothing to do with what is happening in Paris,” Barret said.

  RT
Yeah, maybe.  Not a very smart time to be holding hostages for a robbery. (OK, I don't know what a smart time would be to do that.)

UPDATE: 7:45 pm
Montpellier prosecutor Christophe Barret confirmed to reporters that the gunman was arrested and the two hostages were released and are in good health.

Barret also said there was no attempted robbery and stressed that the situation in Montpellier was not connected to the earlier events in Paris and in Northern France.

  RT
First, it was a robbery, and now it's not?  Is that a typo, or is there some other reason there was a hostage situation?

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