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Pizzeria Owner's Son Takes Employees Hostage Near Paris
A knife-wielding man on Saturday took several employees hostage in his father's restaurant on the outskirts of Paris as a large police force surrounded the establishment.
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Paris Hostage Situation Over As Police Arrest Gunman
A gunman who took two people hostage in central Paris on Tuesday has been arrested and his victims freed "safe and sound", police in the French capital said.
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Hostages in Northern French Town Safe, No Link to Paris Attacks
Armed men who took hostages on Tuesday in the northern French town of Roubaix appeared to have no link to the November 13 attacks by Islamist militants in Paris but were probably planning a robbery, police sources said on Tuesday.
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Paris Post Office Gunman Arrested, Hostages Freed, Say Police
The hostage situation at a post office near Paris has come to an end, and the gunman has been arrested, news agency Agence France Presse quoted the police as saying.
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Man Surrenders After Taking Hostages in South of France
A gunman took two women hostage in a jewellery store in the southern French city of Montpellier on Friday before giving himself up, officials said, adding the incident had no link to the Islamist violence around Paris.
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French Terror Suspects in Phone Contact, Want 'Martyr' Death
French security forces struggled with two rapidly developing hostage-taking situations Friday, one northeast of Paris where two terror suspects were holed up with a hostage in a printing plant and the other an attack on a kosher market in Paris.
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Shooting, New Hostage Situation Reported at Grocery in Eastern Paris: 10 Updates
A new shooting has been reported in eastern Paris, where an armed man has taken a hostage at a grocery, news agency AFP reported, quoting sources.
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Hostage Taken North of Paris During Manhunt for Newspaper Killings
French anti-terrorist police surrounded a small northern town and helicopters hovered overhead after at least one person was taken hostage in a print works by two men believed to have carried out an attack on a Paris satirical journal.
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Pizzeria Owner's Son Takes Employees Hostage Near Paris
A knife-wielding man on Saturday took several employees hostage in his father's restaurant on the outskirts of Paris as a large police force surrounded the establishment.
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Paris Hostage Situation Over As Police Arrest Gunman
A gunman who took two people hostage in central Paris on Tuesday has been arrested and his victims freed "safe and sound", police in the French capital said.
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Hostages in Northern French Town Safe, No Link to Paris Attacks
Armed men who took hostages on Tuesday in the northern French town of Roubaix appeared to have no link to the November 13 attacks by Islamist militants in Paris but were probably planning a robbery, police sources said on Tuesday.
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Paris Post Office Gunman Arrested, Hostages Freed, Say Police
The hostage situation at a post office near Paris has come to an end, and the gunman has been arrested, news agency Agence France Presse quoted the police as saying.
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Man Surrenders After Taking Hostages in South of France
A gunman took two women hostage in a jewellery store in the southern French city of Montpellier on Friday before giving himself up, officials said, adding the incident had no link to the Islamist violence around Paris.
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French Terror Suspects in Phone Contact, Want 'Martyr' Death
French security forces struggled with two rapidly developing hostage-taking situations Friday, one northeast of Paris where two terror suspects were holed up with a hostage in a printing plant and the other an attack on a kosher market in Paris.
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Shooting, New Hostage Situation Reported at Grocery in Eastern Paris: 10 Updates
A new shooting has been reported in eastern Paris, where an armed man has taken a hostage at a grocery, news agency AFP reported, quoting sources.
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Hostage Taken North of Paris During Manhunt for Newspaper Killings
French anti-terrorist police surrounded a small northern town and helicopters hovered overhead after at least one person was taken hostage in a print works by two men believed to have carried out an attack on a Paris satirical journal.
