Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, Nov 16, 2024 (AFP) - Four French restaurant staff held hostage freed by police

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2024-11-16

French police on Saturday detained a knife-wielding man who took four staff hostage at his parents' restaurant outside Paris. The employees were freed and no one was hurt during the operation at the pizzeria located in the town of Issy-les-Moulineaux in the southwestern suburbs of the French capital, not far beyond the Paris ring road. "The operation is over," a police source told AFP. A source close to the case said earlier the man was a drug......

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