{"id":120672,"date":"2020-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/police_find_no_threat_at_ubisoft_montreal_after_hoax_emergency_call"},"modified":"2020-11-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T00:00:00","slug":"police-find-no-threat-at-ubisoft-montreal-after-hoax-emergency-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/14\/police-find-no-threat-at-ubisoft-montreal-after-hoax-emergency-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Find No Threat At Ubisoft Montreal After Hoax Emergency Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a72c893002ac3\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a72c893002ac3\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Ubisoft\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a72c893002ac3\/ubisoft.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a72c893002ac3\/ubisoft.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Ubisoft\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>A reported hostage situation at Ubisoft Montreal appears to have been started by a hoax emergency call. Police say &#8220;<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SPVM\/status\/1327353175670657024\">no threat has been identified for now<\/a>&#8221; and have evacuated the building.<\/p>\n<p>This all started local time early afternoon on Friday when news began circulating about police evacuating Montreal\u2019s Mile-End neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>Local outlet TVA Nouvelles said Montreal&#8217;s police service (SPVM) sent in tactical units after a 911 call. At the time of the emergency, Ubisoft employees fled to the rooftop.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ok, it looks like this all started as a hoax, but they dont know yet who was responsible for that. I&#8217;m just glad that people are safe \ud83d\ude4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MrE3UcAhHy\">pic.twitter.com\/MrE3UcAhHy<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Davide Soliani (@DavideSoliani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavideSoliani\/status\/1327356086349914120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Ubisoft Montreal is the studio behind the recently released <strong>Assassin&#8217;s Creed Valhalla<\/strong> and the upcoming title <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/roller_champions\">Roller Champions<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reported hostage situation at Ubisoft Montreal appears to have been started by a hoax emergency call. Police say &#8220;no threat has been identified for now&#8221; and have evacuated the building. This all started local time early afternoon on Friday when news began circulating about police evacuating Montreal\u2019s Mile-End neighbourhood. Local outlet TVA Nouvelles said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}