Le Mans police officers took a tied up man out of the trunk of a car, at the U station in Saint-Pavace, on the edge of the Le Mans ring road, on the night of Wednesday January 1 to Thursday January 2, according to information from France Bleu Normandy.
At 12:15 a.m., a BAC patrol from Le Mans spotted hooded men refueling a Mégane previously stolen in the Eure. The police block the car by hitting it with their own vehicle, but the driver and his passenger flee on foot. They manage to escape the police and are still wanted this Thursday noon.
Tied up and doused in gasoline
Back at the gas station, the officers hear a voice calling for help from inside the car. They open the trunk and discover a man tied up, doused in gasoline, disoriented to the point of having lost track of time.
To the Le Mans police officers, the victim explained that he had been the victim on December 31 ofa homejacking, a burglary in his presencealmost 500 kilometers away. This 56-year-old man lives in Saint-Genis-Puilly, a commune in Ain neighboring Geneva, franceinfo learned from a source close to the matter. His wife and daughter were also tied up on the spot but not taken away. Beaten, man suffers injuries which do not involve his vital prognosis.
A ransom demanded… in Dubai
A ransom demand via encrypted networks was made to his son living in Dubai, adds a source close to the matter to France Bleu Normandie.
The investigation is entrusted to the research section of the Lyon gendarmerie, members of which are expected this Thursday in Le Mans, under the responsibility of the Bourg-en-Bresse public prosecutor's office (Ain). They will be able to rely in particular on one of the hoods, found on the ground after the chase.
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