Le Figaro Nantes
It is a strange character that had to deal with passers-by, Sunday evening, course of the 50-hostages, in Nantes. An individual threatened some of them with a medieval sword before being arrested by police around 21:30 p.m. He was in possession of a long, unsharpened weapon resembling a collector's item, according to a police source.
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During his arrest, the police noted that his blood alcohol level was 1.80g of alcohol per liter of blood. They also discovered that he was carrying a tear gas canister and that he was making incoherent statements. He reportedly told the police that he spoke four languages: French, Spanish, Italian and... the alien. He was taken into custody at the Waldeck Rousseau police station.