A 56-year-old man, kidnapped Tuesday in Ain, as part of a ransom demand, was found tied up in the trunk of a car near Le Mans (Sarthe), the prosecutor's office said this Friday. Bourg-en-Bresse.
The ransom request was addressed to his son, “a social success known to the general public,” prosecutor Karine Malara said in a press release, without giving further details.
The father of a cryptocurrency influencer
According to several media outlets, he is a cryptocurrency influencer based in Dubai, who regularly posts videos about his earnings.
Her parents were kidnapped and tied up on Tuesday afternoon at their home in Saint-Genis-Pouilly in Ain, “by several armed individuals, hiding their faces”, according to the magistrate's account.
After making a ransom demand, the kidnappers kidnapped the father, who was “violated, doused with gasoline and transported in the trunk of a car, failing to pay the sum demanded”.
The fifty-year-old was then found several hundred kilometers away, by police officers from the Anti-Crime Brigade (Bac) of Le Mans, in the trunk of the car, “violated but without his vital prognosis being compromised”.
According to a source close to the case, the police discovered him in the middle of the night in the parking lot of a supermarket. Two men present in the vehicle fled, said this source, confirming information from France Bleu Normandie.
The Bourg-en-Bresse public prosecutor's office has opened a flagrant investigation into the charge of arrest, kidnapping, kidnapping or arbitrary detention committed by an organized gang, entrusted to the gendarmes of Lyon and Gex.
The wife, for her part, was found tied up at the family home in Saint-Genis-Pouilly, a town located a few kilometers west of Geneva, according to another source close to the case.
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