He made suicidal remarks and claimed to have a weapon.
The occupant of a room at the Kyriad hotel in Argenteuil caused the evacuation of the establishment and the closure of the district this Saturday afternoon.
It took very long hours of intervention before being able to control the individual who ultimately was not injured and had no tools to be able to do so.
It was around 2:50 p.m. that the firefighters first arrived on the scene.
A guest of the hotel, located at 35 boulevard du Général-Leclerc, was locked in his room on the ground floor.
He had made very disturbing remarks to his family by telephone, assuring that he was going to end his life and use a weapon.
The 22-year-old man expressed these same intentions to the police officers present on the spot who tried to speak to him.
Faced with the uncertainty of the situation, the police had to call in the Raid.
National police specialists quickly went to the scene and established a security zone as required by procedure.
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Once the hotel was emptied of its other occupants and a perimeter established around the building, the elite unit stormed shortly before 5 p.m.
Raid agents were easily able to subdue the entrenched individual.
He was taken care of by the rescuers present who then handed him over to the police.
The search did not find any weapon.
The young man, who is domiciled in Argenteuil, was placed in police custody, where he must be the subject of a psychiatric expertise.