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On June 19, the city police get a disturbing call. The caller asserts that he is holding his wife captive and holding her at gunpoint. He announced that he would kill her if “no ransom is paid”. The deployment begins.
The men of the Raid are put on alert. Several teams of national police go to Rue Marceau, to the address given by the “hostage-taker”, but find nothing. In the days that followed, the hostage-taker repeated his calls. It is not possible to locate him because he uses several telephone numbers. He calls the police in Arabic: “I will go to jihad”, or “I will join Daesh and blow up everything”.
This time he mentions a name. Not his own, but that of a former friend of his: a minor. The latter’s mother decided to file a complaint, which allowed further investigations to be initiated. The investigation led to the identification of a 13-year-old youth. He was taken into police custody. Nice-Matin