a video of the mutilated victim sent to his son to put pressure on

A man, father of a business manager who made a fortune in the cryptocurrency, was removed this Thursday before being found this Saturday evening in Palaiseau with a cut finger. To put pressure on the son, the kidnappers sent him a video from his mutilated father.

This Thursday, May 1, around 10:30 am, four hooded people removed a man in the 14th arrondissement of the capital. The victim was found, alive, but with a cut finger, Saturday May 3, in a pavilion located in Essonne.

When they were in possession of their target, the kidnappers asked for a ransom of “several million euros”. The victim turns out to be the father of a man who made a fortune in cryptocurrencies. The kidnappers sent a video of the mutilated victim to his son, to put pressure during the negotiations, learned BFMTV from a close to the file confirming information from RTL.

According to information from BFMTV, he was in Malta at the time of his father’s abduction. The police repatriated him in France quickly, to assist him during the negotiations. When receiving his father’s images, the son was already with the police.

“They tried to escape”

During the intervention of the BRI of the Paris police headquarters, the kidnappers had a firearm, white weapons and bruising weapons at hand.

“They sought to run away and oppose the arrest,” a source close to the investigation. However, there was no injuries during the arrest.

Note that a fifth person was placed in police custody. She was arrested behind the wheel of a vehicle that could have served during operations, said the Paris prosecutor’s office at BFMTV.com.