Posted on 03/09/2006 8:34:54 AM PST by sageb1
A former teacher has taken 18 students, a teacher and a teaching assistant hostage at a school in France.
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BBC NEWS
Ex-teacher seizes French students
A former teacher has taken 18 students, a teacher and a teaching assistant hostage at a school in France.
The man, who is armed with a handgun, is holding the hostages at a school in Sable-sur-Sarthe, south-west of Paris.
The 33-year-old man has been out of work since losing his job as a supply teacher at the school two years ago.
Police have surrounded the building and officers are negotiating with the man who has barricaded himself and the hostages in a classroom.
The man has made no demands but a police official said the hostage-taker "wants to talk to the press about his employment problems".
An employee at the Colbert de Torcy secondary school told LCI television: "He was very depressed when he left the school two years ago.
"We knew him, that's why we allowed him into the school."
French special forces are reported to be en route from Paris to the scene.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/europe/4790468.stm
Published: 2006/03/09 16:21:26 GMT
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was his gov't stipend of escargo was discontinued?
Armed teacher takes 20 hostage in French school
09/03/2006 16h21LE MANS, France (AFP) - An unemployed teacher took 18 students, a teacher and another man hostage at gunpoint at a high school in western France.
The drama was unfolding in the Colbert de Torcy state school in the town of Sable-sur-Sarthe, southwest of Le Mans.
Officials said the hostage-taker, a 33-year-old contract supply teacher without work, had taught at the school two years ago.
They said he was armed with a pistol.
"Police are currently at the scene and are negotiating with the hostage-taker through a door which has been barricaded," the director of the regional government administrator's office told AFP.
He was "probably going through a crisis of depression," the director said.
The school, which has around 1,600 students enrolled, also contains a vocational training section.
Oh yeah, like this is going to help.
What a loser. Cap him.
The fruits of socialism. Average double-digit unemployment.
... but the nation has surrendered just to be safe.
Send in the gigolo!
A supply teacher is what the Brits call a substitute teacher. (I had to look it up...)
Why aren't they giving the guy's name?
Well he's in the right place for a fast getaway.
I'm guessing ROP here... I am so bad!
BBC articles need not be excerpted.
Yeah, what's this Mohammad's last name?
exactly
* Scrubbing latrines in prison for the next fifty years.
Apologies. Catching back up on my own post after phone call. Originally, I heard this on FOX and then googled for more news.
The govt would be racially insensitive to publish a muslims name before all the facts are in regarding the alledged kidnapping. Now mind you, just because you kidnap so many people, that doesnt mean you actually are kidnapping them, do you understand this concept? Good, ty.
since I have never posted to you, i will include the sarcasm tag.
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