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French post office hostage-taker surrenders to police

The city is still on high alert in the wake of the attacks that killed 17 people. A fresh hostage situation is developing today, at a suburban post office.

Updated 1.57pm

HOSTAGES HAVE BEEN freed from a post office in a Paris suburb, with the hostage taker giving himself up.

A police source told AFP that the man who holed himself up in the building with two hostages surrendered.

He is now in police custody.

“”There was no assault, the man gave himself up”, the source said, adding that the hostages were “shocked but not injured.”

The incident comes in the wake of last week’s attacks that killed 17 people. However, local reports are suggesting the incident was not terror-related.

The raider is believed to have been armed, according to French TV channel BFMTV.

There is no known link with last week’s jihadist attacks, according to the AFP report. A helicopter is flying overhead in the area.

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The incident developed in the Colombes area in the west of Paris…

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    Mute poisonivy
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    Feb 8th 2015, 9:54 AM

    Re 50 Shades
    I’ve said it before I’ll say it again If I wanted to watch a poorly written movie with a cast of unknowns and badly acted, unrealistic sex scenes I just watch actual porn.

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    Mute David Evans
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    Feb 8th 2015, 10:16 AM

    Do girl.

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    Mute poisonivy
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    Feb 8th 2015, 10:55 AM

    Haha, hypothetically speaking that is.

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    Mute Andrew Knight
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    Feb 8th 2015, 10:32 AM

    Down to with this sort of thing!

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    Feb 8th 2015, 11:38 AM

    There’s people coming from gdansk to see the film!

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    Mute Mark Lillis
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    Feb 8th 2015, 1:29 PM

    Ah in fairness the people from Gdansk are probably here to collect the social welfare and going to the cinema to kill time before the flight home.

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    Mute Conor Power
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    Feb 8th 2015, 10:14 AM

    Looking forward to film version of Fionnuala O’Carroll-Kelly’s ‘Fifty Greys in Shades’

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    Mute Uncle Mort
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    Feb 8th 2015, 12:17 PM

    “Why go to the cinema to watch other people have sex? It’s perverted. If I go to the cinema I want to be entertained”

    In the olden days couples were known to ‘do it’ on the floor in the back row of the balcony seats in the Leinster Cinema in Dolphins Barn, giving much entertainment to us young lads.

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    Feb 8th 2015, 11:22 AM

    I’m looking forward to it actually, hope its in 3 D too

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    Feb 8th 2015, 10:07 AM

    The sequel is already in production – 50 Shaves a Day starring Susan Boyle!

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    Mute Spiderman_Irish
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    Feb 8th 2015, 10:02 AM

    In the words of Family Guy’s Glen Quagmire: “Giggidy gigidy al…rite…”

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    Feb 8th 2015, 4:04 PM

    ”Why go to the cinema to watch other people have sex? It’s perverted. If I go to the cinema I want to be entertained.”

    Guess what Mary? A hell of a lot of people find sex entertaining. And (you may need to sit down for this one) a very large percentage of the 100 million copies of FSOG sold were to women, as is the target audience for the film. That’s a lot of lady perverts. But the good news for you is Shaun The Sheep is on. The clean version.

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    Mute Gary Gary
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    Feb 8th 2015, 9:55 AM

    I’ve s feeling film is going to gratuitous just for the sake of it.
    More ebbing away of Ireland’s mortality

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    Feb 8th 2015, 10:00 AM

    Gary seriously get a hobby for yourself. Sick of your comments on nearly every article.

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    Mute Pat Kirwan
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    Feb 8th 2015, 10:05 AM

    Ireland’s morality has been eroded by the very people who were preaching it. An organisation that was rife with child molesters, paedophiles, people who would abuse physically, mentally and sexually and then get up on an altar and tell people how they live their lives. Sorry now but a film/book about sex is not going to destroy this country.

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    Mute Spiderman_Irish
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    Feb 8th 2015, 10:06 AM

    I think Gary Gary is from one of them groups that dress women up from head to toe to cover them up for morality reasons. Yet when they get home they 50 shades the women where people can’t see them or judge them. It’s the 21st century Gary Gary come into the light my friend.

    Mortality btw is about death. Morality is about morals fyi..

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    Feb 8th 2015, 10:09 AM

    Gary

    I’m surprised you’re posting comments here, I though you’d be at Mass!

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    Feb 8th 2015, 10:09 AM

    Pat the only problem with what you said there is that people i.e the clergy did those things. It never said in the bible to abuse children and I do think there needs to be a separation there. But yes a lot of bad people preached one thing and did another and as a result hurt the church, country and people. Not all but some.

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    Feb 8th 2015, 10:18 AM

    We’ll said Pat

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    Mute Zoltar
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    Feb 8th 2015, 10:37 AM

    Sex is not evil, immoral or a negative, we are the most sexualised and social beings on this earth. The head of the human penis is shaped like so to plunge other semen out of the vagina, we think about and have Sex More than any other animal, our biology shows that sex was used to strengthen bonds, people that love an old book have made us feel guilty of these natural “immoral” urges, wish they’d get a grip and stop trying to legislate nonsense on other people, feel free to flagellate yourselves though.

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    Feb 8th 2015, 12:24 PM
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    Feb 8th 2015, 1:56 PM

    Would you watch your sister in a porn movie skippy?

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    Feb 9th 2015, 12:28 AM

    “Austerity in Ireland ended more than 12 months ago.” Good one, isn’t not the whole of the eurozone in austerity because it was aimed at the currency rather than countries and this led to countries being in worst austerity than the Euro. How can the Eurozone have a currency that is in austerity and the countries using it are not, I find that confusing?

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    Feb 8th 2015, 11:13 PM

    Time to do away with the whip system in government ,I say!

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