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

[rcmaehl]

Just now, wkdpaul said:

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

 

In all seriousness, I hope it is just a misunderstanding or a prank call

[WkdPaul]

Just now, piratemonkey said:

*snip*

 

Just now, rcmaehl said:

*snip*

 

The news channel (LCN) says that information is coming from their police source ; it's coming apparent that it's a swatting incident.

[charlie_root]

Awaiting the new Rainbow Six Siege map...

[WkdPaul]

They just evacuated people from the building, the people on the roof are still there.

[TetraSky]

Looking more and more to have been a "swatting prank" indeed.

The last update from LCN is to say

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15h17 | La tension vient de baisser d'un cran chez Ubisoft; l'appel déclenchant l'opération policière majeure ne serait pas fondé.

Le SPVM refuse toutefois de confirmer quoi que ce soit. 

 

The original call for this whole thing may not have been legit. But the SPVM (montreal's police) doesn't confirm anything yet.

 

 

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15h32 | Des gens commencent à évacuer le bâtiment.

Des dizaines de personnes sont vues accompagnées des policiers. Le tout se passe dans le calme.

People got evacuated, police will be meeting with the evacuated people to know what happened.

The people on the roof are still calm and locked themselves up on the roof. At least they have their coats, so no worry of them getting too cold.

[WkdPaul]

EDIT ; they didn't remove all the items blocking the doors, we got more images and the doors still have things stuffed on the doors.

 

 

People on the roof are removing the object they used to barricade the doors ;

 

Edited November 13, 2020 by wkdpaul

[ShinRamen]

Thanks everybody for the updates so we don‘t have to open several links especially on mobile. 

 

But it man that is horrible I really hope it‘s not a real threat and everybody gets away from this (physically) unharmed. Hate Ubi as much as you want, no one should have to live through something like that. 

[TetraSky]

So the call apparently did come from the inside... and sounded serious enough.

 

Well, I guess this could count as "training" for our cops at least, so not everything is lost if it was a "prank". It sure as fuck isn't funny though. Hope they catch the bastard who did this.

[WkdPaul]

For now it's only been confirmed in French, but it is a swatting hoax ;

 

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

[WkdPaul]

People are being evacuated from the building, they are brought to city bus they mobilized. People on the roof are still there.

 

 

 

[agatong55]

 

Police Montréal

 

@SPVM

 

No threat has been identified for now. We are currently evacuating the building. #SPVM

[WkdPaul]

Just now, agatong55 said:

 

Police Montréal

 

@SPVM

 

No threat has been identified for now. We are currently evacuating the building. #SPVM

Sorry, I stayed in the thread and was listening to the live broadcast and was updating your thread as it was developing

 

 

 

[Orange1]

3 hours ago, agatong55 said:

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

What does that even mean?

 

 

[WkdPaul]

38 minutes ago, Orange1 said:

What does that even mean?

 

 

A bad google translate

[rcmaehl]

1 minute ago, wkdpaul said:

A bad google translate

You are a no said

[Trik'Stari]

3 hours 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.

Or possibly anyone that has ever used Uplay even once.