Introduction"Hostage taking today": Diverse hostage situations (in relation with terrorism)
François Haut
Conférence prononcée lors du "Urban
Hazards Forum", à l'invitation de l'Université de New York
(John Jay College of Criminal Law) et de la FEMA (Federal Emergency Management
Agency), New York, 22-24 janvier 2002.
1- One of these trends leads to explicit hostage situations: one person or
a small group of persons is held as a lever to obtain something.
2 - The
other trend is the implicit or global hostage situation:
an entire population is hostage to terrorism
3 - Of
course, as I told you, both trends exist together in the terrorist
context.