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ultra_mat
03-09-2006, 10:48 AM
in french high school, on going situation, old teacher armed with a handgun as taken 18 students hostage.
CMNot
03-09-2006, 11:05 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4790468.stm
Resurrection
03-09-2006, 11:06 AM
Damn, sounds terrible. How long has the police been at the scene?
ultra_mat
03-09-2006, 11:08 AM
around 2 hours, the gendarmerie are in talks through a barricade door.
Ea$y-8
03-09-2006, 11:23 AM
In Germany a few years ago this guy got really pissed off at his college and killed something like 13 teachers 2 students and a cop before killing himself. What was this guys name again?

In any case it seems the tables have turned in France. I hope the students that are taken hostage make it out ok.
ultra_mat
03-09-2006, 11:28 AM
the GIGN as been called in, 2 teams are on their way.
stonecutter
03-09-2006, 11:36 AM
the GIGN as been called in, 2 teams are on their way.


Nice. I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of that.
Sharp
03-09-2006, 12:44 PM
from the french original news.. bad translation but ..


A teacher with the 33 years unemployment retained Thursday afternoon 22 people, including 20 teenagers, as an hostage in a room of the public college Colbert de Torcy in the Sand-on-Sarthe (the Sarthe), one learned near the gendarmerie from Mans. Two supervisors are retained with the high-school pupils from 16 to 18 years.


The man is armed with a weapon of fist, specified the gendarmerie, which was alerted towards 15h. According to the prefecture, it was employed two more years ago of this establishment sheltering approximately 900 pupils. He explained to the authorities why he was without employment and wanted to draw the attention to his situation.


Bernadette Mercier, agent of reception of the college, specified in Associated Press that the man "promised with supervising that it will not make any evil with the pupils. It discusses with them, it discusses with supervising. It has the rather calm air ". Depressed because of its situation of unemployed, he would have simply liked to draw the attention to his case and to meet Francois Fillon, former minister for Education and senator of the Sarthe.

"He said to us that he would leave the pupils this evening, that he would not do anything to them", it added on LCI, explaining to hold this message of one supervising which telephoned to him after the beginning of the taking of hostage.

nothing to be afraid of, i'm sure the students of the Colbert de Torcy college are big boys now..
Resurrection
03-09-2006, 12:45 PM
Has GIGN gotten there yet?
Sharp
03-09-2006, 12:49 PM
Has GIGN gotten there yet?

" A team of 25 men of the GIGN was sent on the spot, leaving in the afternoon the base of Villacoublay (Yvelines) by helicopter. "

i don't see the point to send the GIGN but... It would be better to offer to him a work and a glass of wine..
BlackRain
03-09-2006, 12:51 PM
" A team of 25 men of the GIGN was sent on the spot, leaving in the afternoon the base of Villacoublay (Yvelines) by helicopter. "

i don't see the point to send the GIGN but... It would be better to offer to him a work and a glass of wine..

Hence GIGN...

Armed man takes pupils hostage in French school

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=75006
Resurrection
03-09-2006, 12:52 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/03/09/france.hostage/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4790468.stm
Sharp
03-09-2006, 01:18 PM
Hence GIGN...

Armed

it's a non hostile guy, gign answer is disproportionate (but i agree politically adapted to the situation..)
Resurrection
03-09-2006, 01:21 PM
Regardless, he is still armed and has taken 20 people hostage. A team is needed in case the sh*t hits the fan.

Better to be there and not needed than vice-versa.
ed316
03-09-2006, 01:22 PM
it's a non hostile guy, gign answer is disproportionate (but i agree politically adapted to the situation..)

If he is armed he is hostile.
FRENCHSPECOPS
03-09-2006, 01:32 PM
it's a non hostile guy, gign answer is disproportionate (but i agree politically adapted to the situation..)

No, I don't think it's disapropriate. GIGN has excellent negociationīteams and psychologists and all those guys.
And further, it's surely not too bad to have the intervention team in back hand...read about many hostage situations who have been resolved only by "showing teeth" (even more when the hostage-taker isn't "profesional").
Also when the situation turns bad, it's good to have the pros directly on place...just for the case....
joshfox0
03-09-2006, 01:38 PM
Personally i think anyone who takes someone hostage with a weapon deserves to have a "cap" "bust" in their "ass"
Sgt Kanderer
03-09-2006, 01:44 PM
He surrender just 2 minutes ago.
Moledet
03-09-2006, 01:51 PM
"Finaly a teacher that controls a class." (quote of a guy in Ynet).

He surrendered? Typical Frenchman.
Zarathustra
03-09-2006, 01:53 PM
End of story.
ed316
03-09-2006, 01:57 PM
"
He surrendered? Typical Frenchman.

rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl
stonecutter
03-09-2006, 02:32 PM
[QUOTE=Moledet
He surrendered? Typical Frenchman.[/QUOTE]


Knock knock.
Who's there?
Fvck you.
BlackRain
03-09-2006, 02:34 PM
What I find remarkable about this story is the media has not stated what the gunmen's name is. They will only give his age, employment status, and medical history (i.e. depression).

The named employees in the school, police official, government officials, etc. Yet, they won't release his name.

I wonder why?


http://images.ibsys.com/2006/0309/7852637.jpg

Police talks with local people outside the Colbert de Torcy High School in Sable-sur-Sarthe, western France, Thursday, March 9, 2006 in this image taken from television. A 33-year-old former teacher armed with a handgun who took 23 people _ most of them students _ hostage Thursday in a classroom of his former school has surrendered, police said. (AP Photo/ ITV via AP Television)

More pix here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4791344.stm
Ea$y-8
03-09-2006, 02:37 PM
"Finaly a teacher that controls a class." (quote of a guy in Ynet).

Let him straighten out a class

The rest of of us:

rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl
Resurrection
03-09-2006, 02:40 PM
What I find remarkable about this story is the media has not stated what the gunmen's name is. They will only give his age, employment status, and medical history (i.e. depression).

I think that's pretty normal procedure in Europe. May be wrong though.
morlick
03-09-2006, 02:44 PM
He surrender just 2 minutes ago.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/03/09/france.hostage.surrender/index.html
jedisponge
03-09-2006, 03:42 PM
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Fvck you.
Uh... ha ha? Are you trying to be a Roman?