Trial for kidnapping: behind the ultraviolent sequestration, young fathers in search of benchmarks. Five men have been on trial since Wednesday for the kidnapping and beating of Brayan C.

in May 2021. “A father remains a benchmark,” says Adam K., 25, when the president of the court asks him what he might have felt when he died when he was only 16 years old. The victim was 21 years old when she was kidnapped by a gang in a parking lot in Noisy-le-Grand.