French man arrested after taking hostages in Toulouse bank and demanding to see Merah police unit - Polidicks

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18516934[/url] [quote=BBC News][B]A man who seized four people in a bank in the southern French city of Toulouse has been detained, reports say.[/B] Officials say the gunman first demanded money. When he was refused, a shot was fired and hostages taken. [B]The man, saying he was linked to al-Qaeda, demanded to speak to the elite Raid police unit that killed Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah.[/B] He released two women hostages and later, after gunfire was heard, French media reported that he was in custody. The gunman is said to have been wounded but his two remaining hostages are not thought to have been harmed. [B]'Religious reasons'[/B] The man went into the branch of the CIC bank at 10:10 local time (08:10 GMT), taking the manager and three other people hostage. The area around the bank was cordoned off and two nearby schools were closed. Special police units from the GIPN (Groupe d'intervention de la police nationale) arrived from Marseille and Bordeaux. A police union source told the regional newspaper Ouest-France it was not clear whether the man's claim about al-Qaeda was "serious or a fantasy". More than four hours into the siege, police said a woman hostage had been freed in exchange for food and water. A second woman was released some time afterwards. Public prosecutor Michel Valet told reporters that the man "wishes to let it be known that he is not acting for money, but for religious reasons". The hostage-taker was believed to be around 30 years old and known to the authorities, Toulouse newspaper La Depeche reported. He was from Castres, to the east of Toulouse, and one source told the paper he was a schizophrenic who had broken off his treatment. The bank is a few hundred metres from Merah's flat, in an area adjacent to the barracks where Raid police were based during the March siege. No officers from Raid - which has its headquarters north of Paris, about 600km (400 miles) from Toulouse - have been deployed to the scene. Merah, a 23-year-old Frenchman of Algerian descent, killed seven people in three separate attacks before he was shot dead by police in March. His victims included three children and a teacher at a Jewish school, and three soldiers. Merah filmed his attacks and sent the footage to police. He was shot dead by a police sniper on 22 March after commandos stormed his flat. Merah was suspected to have had an accomplice within the Muslim community, our correspondent says. In the wake of the shootings, the French authorities set up an investigation into whether Merah had accomplices and into possible Islamist indoctrination practices in prisons. They have shown zero tolerance to anyone known to have used Islamist internet sites or to have had links to a fringe al-Qaeda group to which Merah is said to have belonged, our correspondent says. On 7 June, a man armed with a shotgun took hostage a security guard at the French weather service, Meteo France. The hostage-taker fired several shots and was seriously injured when police returned fire. His hostage was uninjured.[/quote]

the police sure did act quickly, guess they had no time toulouse

Good thing he was arrested, these kind of people can go fuck right off.

(surrender joke)

Love the smell of a false flag in the morning. Iran and syria here weeee comeeeeeeeee

[QUOTE=entertainer89;36417543]Love the smell of a false flag in the morning. Iran and syria here weeee comeeeeeeeee[/QUOTE] what really so the best fake reason that our governments can come up with to invade two countries is to fake a small scale robbery by a Frenchman in Toulouse i doubt half of america can pronounce Toulouse, much less give two fucks about what happens in it

[QUOTE=viperfan7;36413526]the police sure did act quickly, guess they had no time toulouse[/QUOTE] oh my god this is perfect (the pronunciation of "toulouse" is actually almost similar to "to lose" so it's just the most "accurate" pun i've seen in a while)

[QUOTE=entertainer89;36417543]Love the smell of a false flag in the morning. Iran and syria here weeee comeeeeeeeee[/QUOTE] yeah not that this guy is schizophenic who had broken off his treatment or something

Well they got him, and glad to hear the hostages were unharmed.

[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;36417759]oh my god this is perfect (the pronunciation of "toulouse" is actually almost similar to "to lose" so it's just the most "accurate" pun i've seen in a while)[/QUOTE] you have no idea how long I've been waiting to use it

[QUOTE=entertainer89;36417543]Love the smell of a false flag in the morning. Iran and syria here weeee comeeeeeeeee[/QUOTE] Yeahhhhh, no. Also congrats on the 98 dumbs to the 34 funnies.

[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;36417759]oh my god this is perfect (the pronunciation of "toulouse" is actually almost similar to "to lose" so it's just the most "accurate" pun i've seen in a while)[/QUOTE] I know right? Literally the only time in my life I've seen an anglophone so flawlessly make a joke with a french word. It should practically be archived.

I wonder what his religious reasons were. was it a jewish bank or something?

[QUOTE=Krype;36426190]I know right? Literally the only time in my life I've seen an anglophone so flawlessly make a joke with a french word. It should practically be archived.[/QUOTE] I'm canadian, I have some grasp of french :P but back on topic, I wonder why he wanted to talk with them so badly

[img]http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=182234&d=1340194269[/img] AP Photo 29 minutes ago Elite police officers from the GIPN brigade arrive at the bank, seen behind at left with CIC sign, where a man took hostages in the southern French city of Toulouse and fired a shot, police said, Wednesday, June 20, 2012. French television reported that he claimed allegiance to the al-Qaida terrorist group. [img]http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=182235&d=1340194619[/img] Elite police officers from the GIPN brigade arrive at a bank after a gunman took four people hostage in a bank in the southern French city of Toulouse and fired a shot, police said, Wednesday, June 20, 2012. French television reported that he claimed allegiance to the al-Qaida terrorist group. [img]http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=182237&d=1340195132[/img] Special French GIPN intervention police arrive at the scene where a man claiming to be a member of al Qaeda has taken four hostages, including the bank manager, in a bank in Toulouse, June 20, 2012. The man took several hostages in a branch of French bank CIC and fired a shot after an attempted armed robbery apparently went wrong, a police union official reported. [img]http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=182238&d=1340195222[/img] French members of RAID special police forces unit arrive near a bank where four people have been taken hostage by a man claiming to be linked to al-Qaeda in the southern French city Toulouse on June 20, 2012. The man fired a gun and wants to talk to the RAID members that shot dead Al-Qaeda-inspired gunman Mohamed Merah in March following a siege of his flat in the same city after he went on a killing spree, according to the police. [img]http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=182239&d=1340195248[/img] French members of RAID special police forces unit stand in front of a bank where four people have been taken hostage by a man claiming to be linked to al-Qaeda in the southern French city Toulouse on June 20, 2012. The man fired a gun and wants to talk to the RAID members that shot dead Al-Qaeda-inspired gunman Mohamed Merah in March following a siege of his flat in the same city after he went on a killing spree, according to the police.

Never realised how badass the RAID and GIPN look.

[QUOTE=viperfan7;36426941]I'm canadian, I have some grasp of french :P but back on topic, I wonder why he wanted to talk with them so badly[/QUOTE] "Talk" with a weapon... The weird part is the sudden demand. Maybe he is was just robbing and hoped that the demand would get him sympathy from an Islamist extremist group. French jails are some of the worst in europe, connections like that could save his life.

[QUOTE=Krype;36429099]"Talk" with a weapon... The weird part is the sudden demand. Maybe he is was just robbing and hoped that the demand would get him sympathy from an Islamist extremist group. French jails are some of the worst in europe, connections like that could save his life.[/QUOTE] Or he's hoping to make off on insanity and not get into a full prison. Since he only did that after the robbery went wrong apparently.