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Julie Hurisse
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Jan 5, 2025 at 10:45 a.m.
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The police officers of Mans (Sarthe) found a man in a car trunk in Saint-Pavace, on the night of Thursday January 2 to Friday January 3, 2025. He had been kidnapped 300 km away several days earlier. A ransom demand had been sent to his son, influencer in cryptocurrencies.
The police stopped the car and found a man in the trunk
Shortly before midnight, the ferry police saw hooded men at the Saint-Pavace gas station near Le Mans. They manage to block the car. Two individuals fled on foot.
The police heard noises coming from the trunk and discovered a man injured after being beaten, tied up and doused with gasoline. ” Her pronostic vital is not committed,” indicated the Ain prosecutor’s office in a press release to AFP.
A ransom demand
According to the magistrate, the man would have been sequestered and tied up at his home in Saint-Genis-Pouilly with his wife by several armed individuals hiding their faces.
A ransom demand was then addressed to her son “whose social success is known to the general public,” said the prosecutor without giving further details.
A cryptocurrency influencer
According to several media, it would be cryptocurrency influencer based in Dubai and would regularly post videos about his winnings. For “failure to pay the requested sum”, the 56-year-old man was allegedly “violated, doused with gasoline and transported in the trunk of a car”.
They were stopped on the night of Thursday January 2 to Friday January 3 by the police officers from the Le Mans ferryat a gas station in Saint-Pavace. The two suspects fled on foot.
The wife was found tied up at home.
An open investigation
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.
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