A man described as "drug-addicted" and "suicidal," armed with a knife, barricaded himself for three hours with employees in his parents' pizzeria in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. The man was arrested and the hostages released after the police intervened.

The four employees of the pizzeria, located just a few meters from the Paris ring road, were freed by the police just before 4:00 PM, according to a police source who spoke to AFP. "The intervention is over," and "there are no injuries," the source added.

The man, "with a drug-addict profile", according to a source close to the case, had locked himself inside his parents' restaurant shortly before 1:00 PM. The police source further stated that he had "committed similar acts" at his home in 2022, "with suicidal threats."

At the time of the incident, there were no "customers or members of the public" inside the restaurant. Shortly after the arrival of the police, an AFP journalist saw the man's parents—two visibly distressed people in their sixties—handing over the keys to the restaurant.

Specialized police units, including the BRI (Brigade de Recherche et d'Intervention, an elite unit of the Paris police), were swiftly deployed to the scene, including a negotiator, "engaged due to the individual’s suicidal intent," the police source explained. Negotiations were conducted prior to the police intervention.

The man, believed to be between 35 and 40 years old, according to a source close to the case, has no known criminal record.