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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/man-held-after-child-hostages-freed.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A 17-year-old armed with swords is being held by police after children and their teacher were taken hostage at a pre-school in eastern France" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-man-held-after-child-hostages-freed.jpg" alt="A 17-year-old armed with swords is being held by police after children and their teacher were taken hostage at a pre-school in eastern France"/></a></p>
<p>Police have detained a 17-year-old who took a class full of pre-schoolers hostage and all the children have been released safely, a city official has said.</p>
<p>Jean-Marc Magda, aide to the mayor of Besancon, said &#8220;the hostage-taking is over&#8221; and the hostage-taker is under police custody, still inside the school.</p>
<p>Earlier a 17-year-old armed with swords took about 20 small children and their teacher hostage at the pre-school in eastern France.</p>
<p>Fourteen of the children were later released, but six remained inside the school in the city of Besancon, said a police official. An official with city hall said they were in the Charles Fourier pre-school.</p>
<p>The motives for the hostage taking were unclear.</p>
<p>The other classes in the school were evacuated. Mr Magda said on BFM-TV that the children&#8217;s families were offered psychological and medical assistance.</p>
<p>Mr Magda said a special police force was sent in from Strasbourg to help local police handle the stand-off.</p>
<p>The swordsman had suffered from depression, police said. His doctors were contacted by investigators trying to discover what could be behind the hostage-taking.</p>
<p>The school is in Planoise, a neighbourhood of housing projects with a big immigrant population on the western edge of Besancon.</p>
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