A 56-year-old man was found alive in the trunk of a car near Le Mans, after he had been beaten and doused with gasoline. Her captors wanted to blackmail her son, a cryptocurrency influencer who lives in Dubai.
The end of the ordeal for a father, kidnapped and kidnapped by criminals in Saint-Genis-Pouilly, in Ain. This man in his fifties was found alive in a car trunk several hundred kilometers from his home. Rescued by the police, he is out of danger, but his captors are actively sought.
Mother and daughter tied up
Behind this whole affair, there is therefore an extortion attempt on an influencer specializing in cryptocurrencies. A man who makes a lot of money, from Dubai, and who arouses desire. Last Tuesday, his parents were attacked at their home in a small village in Ain. The mother and her daughter are tied up, the father kidnapped by criminals who demand a ransom from the influencer. He alerts the police who come to free the two women.
24 hours later, 600 km away, near Le Mans, BAC police officers spotted two suspects in a car around midnight at a service station. The two men managed to escape on foot, but in the trunk of the stolen car, the police discovered the father tied up, doused in gasoline and bearing signs of beatings.
Very shocked, this 56-year-old man is now out of danger. The commando of criminals is actively sought by the police. The investigation is being carried out by gendarmes from the Lyon research section, under the direction of the Bourg-en-Bresse public prosecutor's office.
