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Eyewitnesses and the Montreal media claim that unknown persons are holding 12 hostages at the Ubisoft office.
The police carry out a special operation near the Ubisoft office in Montreal / photo thepostmillennial.com
The Ubisoft Montreal studio in Canada was taken over by terrorists. They have hostages.
There are reports of dozens of people being taken hostage outside the Ubisoft building on Rue Saint Laurent in Montreal, according to the Canadian edition of the Montreal Journal.
“Currently, the police are working at the site,” the newspaper writes.
Eyewitnesses on Twitter write that people inside Ubisoft’s office are forced to hide under their desks. According to La Presse, 12 people were taken hostage.
Police near the Ubisoft office / photo twitter.com/jesseds
For the time being, the police cordoned off the area.
At the moment, eyewitness and media reports differ. Radio Canada reports that the police are conducting an operation near the Ubisoft building, and the situation itself is related to an armed robbery.
While the police and special forces carried out the operation, some of the employees barricaded themselves on the roof of the building.
Employees climbed to the roof of the building / photo twitter.com/DextrousNinja
One of the Hyper Scape developers, Eric Pope, working from home confirmedthat your colleague is in the photo.
“This is crazy. This is my team on the roof. I have no further details at this time,” wrote a Ubisoft employee.
The police have blocked the street and are advising all residents to avoid the area.
Itself study does not comment on the incident at the moment.
In turn, the narrative director of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Darby McDevitt, who works at Ubisoft Montreal, wrote in Twitterthat everything is fine with him. And the incident happened in a nearby building.
The narrative director AC: Valhalla claims that it all happened in the building next door / photo twitter.com/DarbyMcDevitt
“It’s okay here. It happened in another building. Take care of yourself,” McDevitt wrote.
Narrative Director of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla confirm and other employees from the company’s Montreal office.
Jason Schreier, Bloomberg Employee I managed to contact with Ubisoft PR. The studio said it had received security instructions from the police and was already working with authorities.
The UNIAN Games editorial staff contacted Ubisoft, but at the time of writing, no response was received.
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