Hostage – Man had a cut finger during his captivity, and “other mutilations were to be feared” if the police had not intervened
It took an “extraordinary”, “anthology” survey, ensures a source close to the file, to find the trace and release a man, Saturday evening in Essonne. It had been removed 48 hours earlier in Paris.
The victim is a 50 -year -old who holds a marketing company manager of cryptocurrency in Malta, with his son entrepreneur in the field, and who made a fortune. “The facts were accompanied by a ransom request,” said the prosecution, without specifying the amount. According to the newspaper Le Parisien“The criminals would have claimed between 5 to 7 million euros in the form of transfers in exchange for his release”.
An abduction before witnesses
The hostage was released during an assault on the Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI), Saturday around 9 p.m. in Palaiseau, in a pavilion where it was kidnapped. The man had a cut finger during his captivity. “Other mutilations were to be feared” if the police had not intervened, assures the source close to the investigation.
-During this intervention, four suspects born in 1998, 1999, 2002 and 2005, “were arrested, in or near the accommodation where the victim was sequestrated,” said the prosecution. A fifth, born in 1999, “was arrested behind the wheel of one of the vehicles probably used by criminals,” he completed. They were placed in police custody.
The man had been removed Thursday around 10:30 am in the 14th arrondissement, said the Paris prosecutor’s office. According to a (…)
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