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A man armed with a box-cutting knife who barricaded himself into a day-care centre in southern Italy has been arrested, reports say. | |
The 11 children and a teacher who were taken hostage in the centre in Reggio Calabria were all released unharmed. | The 11 children and a teacher who were taken hostage in the centre in Reggio Calabria were all released unharmed. |
Police and relatives of the man, named by Italian press as Christian Familiari, spent hours trying to persuade him to leave the building. | |
Officers finally entered the classroom and arrested him without a struggle. | |
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The man had allowed cameras from Rai state television into the building, and they filmed him waving the box cutter and shouting as the children cowered in front of him. | |
Rai television showed the man shouting, surrounded by children | |
Some reports say he had demanded 500,000 euros (£370,000) but much of his shouting was said to be unintelligible. He had started to release small numbers of children in stages before the police moved in. | |
The police chief in Reggio Calabria, Santi Giuffre, told the Associated Press the man was complaining about judicial problems, and felt himself "a victim of persecution". | |
Parents of some of the children had gathered at the school along with a crowd of onlookers. |