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UPDATED : Possible Hostage situation at Ubisoft Montreal - confirmed swatting hoax

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A group of suspects would hold dozens of people hostage, Friday afternoon, in Montreal, in a building that houses the premises of the Ubisoft company, on Saint-Laurent Boulevard. 

 

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The operation would have started around 1:30 p.m., according to a witness on the spot.

Dozens of police, including the tactical intervention group, are on site. 

The SPVM has not confirmed or given more details on the large-scale operation that is underway.

Employees would be embarrassed in a conference room, according to our sources. Others are said to have fled through the roof. 

 

 

 

My thoughts

Scary situation, hope everyone is alright there.

 

Sources

https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2020/11/13/important-operation-policiere-pres-dubisoft

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2020/11/13/possible-prise-dotages-chez-ubisoft-a-montreal

 

Links are in french

 

 

STAFF EDIT ;

here are sources in English ;

https://globalnews.ca/news/7461181/major-police-operation-montreal-ubisoft-offices/

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-possible-hostage-situation-at-ubisoft-montreal

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I'm.. glad I didn't work downtown today geez.

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Can someone with better English please go through the sources and put a better summary together.

 

No offence to the OP btw. I cant speak, write, or read anything but English and thanks to my Dyslexia and Dysphoria without a keyboard and spellcheck it would be even harder to make sense of so i totally get thats it's not intentional or desired.

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someones mad they can't run 2.5x on doc anymore.

 

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3 minutes ago, CarlBar said:

Can someone with better English please go through the sources and put a better summary together.

 

No offence to the OP btw. I cant speak, write, or read anything but English and thanks to my Dyslexia and Dysphoria without a keyboard and spellcheck it would be even harder to make sense of so i totally get thats it's not intentional or desired.

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1 minute ago, wkdpaul said:

Glad I left in 2010 :P (Ubisoft, not downtown)

heh, part of me wants to work for Ubisoft because big companies are fun, but also I don't wanna because.. well.. Ubisoft lol

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1 minute ago, givingtnt said:

heh, part of me wants to work for Ubisoft because big companies are fun, but also I don't wanna because.. well.. Ubisoft lol

Not saying I would resent you for that, but it's Ubisoft. Montreal is literally the babysitter of game series's, so I'm sure you can find another studio

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Just now, piratemonkey said:

Not saying I would resent you for that, but it's Ubisoft. Montreal is literally the babysitter of game series's, so I'm sure you can find another studio

I don't really care what you think of me. I can work wherever I want and money is money.
But the time investment of working for Ubisoft is just too much.

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1 minute ago, givingtnt said:

heh, part of me wants to work for Ubisoft because big companies are fun, but also I don't wanna because.. well.. Ubisoft lol

"street rep" is great but I worked there 7 years, and when I left I got a better salary at the new job, and had a stable 40h work schedule, vs 60h+ in crunch time (twice a year, if not more on smaller projects).

 

So yeah.

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Just now, givingtnt said:

I don't really care what you think of me. I can work wherever I want and money is money.
But the time investment of working for Ubisoft is just too much.

I'm just screwing with you. Honestly I don't care where you work as long as you're safe and stuff. Fwiends don't let fwiends be unsafe, right

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Still no details from the SPVM (Montreal Police), lots of people have barricaded themselves on the roof (they have a terrasse on the roof), and apparently some employees were able to get out of the building.

 

They blocked the whole neighborhood, nobody can get near for now.

SWAT team just arrived.

 

Most of the coverage is in French, will post English source when found.

 

https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2020/11/13/important-operation-policiere-pres-dubisoft

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1749387/operation-policiere-boulevard-saint-laurent

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1 minute ago, CarlBar said:

 

Oi!. Or possibly Sacrableur. (Yes i looked the spelling up via Google). 

 

Given the lack of info not much to say except that i hope everyone gets out of this ok, But why Ubisoft, like seriously, what?

Someone wasn't happy with AC valhalla or the new watch_dogs game i guess /s

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5 minutes ago, CarlBar said:

Oi!. Or possibly Sacrableur. (Yes i looked the spelling up via Google). 

Google failed, or your keyboard failed

 

it's sacrebleu :P

 

 

more sources in English ;

https://globalnews.ca/news/7461181/major-police-operation-montreal-ubisoft-offices/

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13 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

Still no details from the SPVM (Montreal Police), lots of people have barricaded themselves on the roof (they have a terrasse on the roof), and apparently some employees were able to get out of the building.

 

They blocked the whole neighborhood, nobody can get near for now.

SWAT team just arrived.

 

Most of the coverage is in French, will post English source when found.

 

https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2020/11/13/important-operation-policiere-pres-dubisoft

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1749387/operation-policiere-boulevard-saint-laurent

Can you go live report the event Paul

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Just now, wkdpaul said:

* thread moved to the General section *

 

it's news, just not about technology, but about a hostage situation that happens to be in a tech HQ.

Do we actually know its a hostage situation? This is Ubisoft, its just as likely to be a group of disgruntled employees going postal over crunch, abuse, non payment of bonuses... Pick your poison and I'm sure its happened there at some point.

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1 minute ago, Master Disaster said:

Do we actually know its a hostage situation? This is Ubisoft, its just as likely to be a group of disgruntled employees going postal over crunch, abuse, non payment of bonuses... Pick your poison and I'm sure its happened there at some point.

If the news sites are correct they asked a ransom. Which makes it very likely that it is indeed a hostage situation.

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1 minute ago, Master Disaster said:

Do we actually know its a hostage situation? This is Ubisoft, its just as likely to be a group of disgruntled employees going postal over crunch, abuse, non payment of bonuses... Pick your poison and I'm sure its happened there at some point.

I feel like hostage situation is the apt term to describe the situation at this point

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A French local news channel (LCN) said it's possible there are no real threats.

 

The police officially declared there are no victims as of now.

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Just now, wkdpaul said:

A French local news channel (LCN) said it's possible there are no real threats.

So like? A prank call?

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Just now, rcmaehl said:

So like? A prank call?

it's very possible, yes. But there's information that the call to the police came from inside Ubisoft HQ.

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3 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

A French local news channel (LCN) said it's possible there are no real threats.

 

The police officially declared there are no victims as of now.

So does that mean no one who can be a victim is in the building, or that there's no threat

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