Several dozen agents from the Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) have been deployed in the Beaubourg district.
A major police operation shook the center of Paris this Friday afternoon, learned Le Figaro from a police source on December 16. The Beaubourg district, in the third arrondissement of Paris, was briefly cordoned off by the police.
According to our information, a man was entrenched in the Passage du Maure, which led to the deployment of several dozen agents from the Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI), shortly before 5 p.m. The individual, “depressive” and in possession of a shotgun, was arrested without causing any injuries, learned Le Figaro.
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The mayor of Paris-Centre, Ariel Weil, had called on Twitter to avoid the sector, before announcing the end of operations around 5:40 p.m.
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