The knifeman is said to be holding the employees of Pizza L’Olivier restaurant in Issy-les-Moulineaux hostage.

No one was hurt during the operation at the pizzeria located in Issy-les-Moulineaux

The police, responding to reports of a man armed with a knife, quickly surrounded the establishment where the man had barricaded himself with "three or four employees," a police source told AFP.

A man carrying a knife has taken multiple people hostage inside a pizza restaurant in Paris with dozens of police cars and ambulances at the scene with the area in lockdown