A new series of arrests – Liberation
New arrests in the Dantesque case of the kidnapping of the father of a man who made a fortune in cryptocurrency. Several people, suspected of being involved in The abduction on May 1 in Pariswere arrested on Tuesday and placed in police custody, we learned this Wednesday, June 11 from a source close to the file, confirming information from Paris Match.
There is no element on the number of the accused or the places of their arrest has been disclosed. Their police custody can go up to 96 hours.
They are accused of having participated directly, on May 1 in the morning, in the kidnapping of a man in sixty years in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. Take a walk for the dog of his son who made a fortune in the cryptocurrency, he would have been forced to climb into a utility vehicle flocked to the logo of the UPS delivery company, according to Paris Match. For 58 hours, it was then kidnapped in a pavilion in Palaiseau, in Essonne.
The kidnappers asked his son several million euros in the form of cryptocurrencies (eight according to Paris Match). During the duration of the sequestration, the victim’s family received ultimatums and threats of mutilation. Man, retained under conditions « Extremely difficult »even had a cut finger, according to a source close to the file. He was finally rescued on May 3 in the evening during an intervention by the police.
A hundred police officers had been mobilized for the investigation working for the BRB (Banditry repression brigade), but also the criminal brigade, the BRU (Research and Intervention Brigade) and the Cybercrime (BL2C) brigade. And Five people who were near the pavilion at the time of the intervention had been arrested. Aged 18 to 26 years old, they were all placed under investigation on May 7 for extortion in organized gang, kidnapping, and forcible confinement with torture or act of barbarism committed in organized gang, and placed in pre -trial detention. They risk life imprisonment.
Since the start of the year, several kidnappings and attempted kidnappings linked to the cryptocurrency have succeeded each other. This black series had started in January with the abduction of the co -founder of Ledger, David Balland and his partner. The latter had finally been released and his partner found tied up in a vehicle. The judicial information continues, with at least nine suspects indicted. A 56 -year -old man was also found in January in the trunk of a car near Le Mans (Sarthe), several hundred kilometers from his home located in Ain. According to several media, it was the father of an cryptocurrency influencer based in Dubai, who regularly publishes videos on his earnings.
May 13, in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, The spectacular attempt to kidnap the girl and grandson From the CEO of the Paymium cryptocurrency company, immortalized by a video that has become viral, had had a strong media impact. As part of this case and another foiled in extremis near Nantes at the end of May, twenty-five people aged 16 to 23, were indicted.
At the beginning of June, a 24-year-old Franco-Moroccan, Badiss Mohamed Amide Bajjoususpected of having commanded kidnappings in the cryptocurrency, including that of David Balland, was arrested in Morocco.
