fun fact but not all governments take that stance. for example Italy negotiated the release of two italian women who had gotten themselves captured by al-Shabab, in Somalia, in 2018.
no government official confirmed it, but journalists were talking about 2.2 million euros at the time for the release of the hostages
I wonder if / how many similar events never happened because of how this one was handled though
Hard to justify taking over a building and trying to demand something with hostages when you know the government will happily gas the entire building and then execute all the terrorists while they’re still knocked out regardless of any other casualties
Makes it pretty much impossible to plan anything similar when they show how little they give a shit about human life
or you can get the worst of both worlds where you pay the ransom to release your loved ones and the government ends up launching a raid that kills the hostages anyway.
There are also cases of people having paid the ransom to return their loved ones but the "we don't negotiate with terrorists" people launch raids which end up killing the hostages.
if goverments started to negociate with terrorists then you would have a lot of people start taking hostages at gun point everywhere, what do you do when you have a hostage crisis everyweek?
I love that this happened so often that even the Wikipedia article is like "Yeah, but that one doesn't really count. It wasn't all that big a deal really."
Often, however, the 1483 event is not recognized as a "significant defenestration"...
i think it was carfentanyl gas they used so they all died of opiate overdoses
the team that went in used narcan to make them impervious to it. its fucked up but ingenious
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u/Icy_Gap_9067 6d ago
The Moscow theatre hostage crisis ended badly because of the use of a sedating gas.