Tuesday, July 19, 2016

France, barricaded gunman at a hotel near Avignon – Il Sole 24 Ore

The French squads are ready to spring into action in Bollène, about 25 kilometers north of Avignon, where an armed individual and seemingly deranged (according to Le Figaro he would refuse to pay the bill and varebbe quarreled with the director) has barricaded himself inside a room of a hotel of low cost Formule 1 chain: for the moment, however, it was decided to try to come to terms, and negotiations have thus started. In theory at least, so far as is not that man has made any demands or conditions of any kind or that it agreed to negotiate. It would be in possession of a suspicious package from which escape electric wires have been noted: it may be harmless, but also be stuffed with explosives.

“All means are available on site, and several units are ready to take action,” said Bernard Gonzalez, prefect of Vaucluse, that it is also a deployment for now merely quote. The hotel has been evacuated and all around it was erected a security perimeter of 250 meters range.

All hypotheses remain possible, and of course – although let all think, according to the latest developments, to a quarrel degenerated – it was initially thought of a new episode linked to Islamist radicalization in key. This time, however, there are no victims or hostages. After the massacre in Nice on July 14, which resulted in 84 victims last night in Germany a young Afghan refugee has become the protagonist of an assault with a knife and agree on a train. Four injured, one serious budget.

The A7 motorway – local media – was closed at the height of Piolenc, in the direction of Marseille and Lyon, with mandatory exit for motorists. Man ‘would have had a discussion with the hotel manager, “said a policeman, adding that it now expects the arrival of negotiators to bring him to reason. According to the police, “the individual has refused to pay the hotel room and it would be enraged against the manager.”

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