• A man took two shopkeepers hostage in the rue d'Aligre mid-afternoon on Monday.

    After releasing one of them at 10 p.m., he left the second free and surrendered around 8 a.m. on Tuesday.

  • The residents present at the time of the facts recount the vagueness of the situation and the control of the police which avoided panic.

  • The shopkeepers, recently arrived in the district, are at the center of the concerns of the inhabitants of the district who hope to see them in good health quickly.

" Night was short. Like Domitille, a resident of the district, the residents of the rue d'Aligre, in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, did not sleep much last night. The hostage-taking of two women traders by an assailant armed with a knife kept the whole neighborhood in suspense until early in the morning and the release around 8 am of the last hostage.

Even though she lives two blocks from the events of the night, Rosie stayed until late in Place d'Aligre, on the edge of the security perimeter set up by the police.

“It's hard to stay at home when you know something like this is happening next door.

However, to his surprise, the neighborhood was very quiet during the incident.

“There were a lot of police, cars, flashing lights, but everything went quite peacefully I found.

There is almost no more commotion this morning, ”she smiles, looking at the many journalists and cameras present in front of the hardware store where the hostage-taking took place.

The incomprehension and the vagueness for the inhabitants of the district

There was some commotion, however, according to Galia, a shopkeeper on the sidewalk in front of the hardware store: “It was a lady who wanted to enter the shop who saw this gentleman with her knife inside. He was telling people to come home. Fortunately, according to the shopkeeper, this woman had the right reflex. “She came running to alert us, in the shops opposite, telling us to go inside and take shelter because there was a dangerous man in front. “Without delay, the local residents put their feet up and warned the police.

Once the authorities were there, and without giving in to panic, the traders and onlookers moved away from the shop while remaining, curious and worried about what was happening.

“We didn't understand,” says Lin, “while waiting his turn in the line of the butcher next to the hardware store, I arrived after the alert and no one knew what was really going on.

Michel, used to the street, confirms the vagueness that reigned among passers-by who attended the ballet of police cars and the BRI.

“Some said it was a robbery, others said it was a terrorist or just a madman.

"

It's hard not to think about terrorism

Charlotte and Jean-Marie were afraid of this last hypothesis. Seated on the “Chez Charlette” terrace, at the corner of the street, they followed the events on social networks from their home, on the other side of the Beauvau market. “The fear was a bomb that would have damaged such a small street. "A few tables away from them, Yanis * had the same fears:" I was afraid of a new event like the Hyper Kosher [in January 2015], that the guy would go out and fire. I read that he was known in the neighborhood but that doesn't prevent anything, all it takes is a stroke of madness. "

Known in the neighborhood, the individual arrested was perhaps not that much. Several residents confirm having seen him often, but without really knowing who he really is. "Yes, I can see who it is, but like many people, you know without knowing, I don't know anything about your life," says Galia. In addition, the shopkeeper explains that the two women taken hostage, a mother and her daughter, are new in the neighborhood, this family would have taken over the shop for 2-3 months, which may have added to the fabrications. “But he entered this shop as he could have entered any other. "

Local residents should not fall into psychosis despite this event explains a customer of the Sabah grocery store at the end of rue d'Aligre.

“It's calm here.

This is not the kind of thing that usually happens.

We will get over it.

Most of them have a thought for the two women taken hostage and shocked by these long hours of anguish, as Simona sums it up, looking at the closed storefront.

“We hope they will get over it.

And then it's up to us to help them come back, without the clients or the journalists jumping on them.

"

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