In the drug world, gangsters usually end badly. Nassim, 17, had made an appointment with a client, on the night of Thursday to Friday, in a parking lot in Chenôve, in the suburbs of Dijon (Côte-d'Or), to give him a kilo of cannabis resin in exchange of around 1,000 euros.
Once arrived at the scene and the money returned, the "client" sees Nassim and his two accomplices flee without giving him the drugs. Then begins a chase. After a fight, the drug buyer traps the adolescent and con artist.
Then begins an epic "worthy of bad police films", explained the public prosecutor Eric Mathais. The teenager will be strolled through the Côte d'Or, but also in Haute-Saône and up to Haute-Marne. He says he was threatened with a Japanese knife and saber, and beaten.
"1000 euros otherwise I cut her finger"
At the same time, the kidnapper sends an SMS to Nassim's father and several of his friends to ask for a ransom of a thousand euros. Without answer. The cheated buyer threatens: "Otherwise, we cut a finger". Nassim's father then contacts the police. Appointment is made to make the exchange. Except that the customer takes precautions and regularly changes the place.
So much so that this operation will last for hours and will mobilize around thirty police officers and a gendarmerie helicopter. The chase will stop in the evening, in the town of Sacquenay (Côte d'Or).
The kidnapper is arrested after he got into a police car and injured an official. Nassim is discovered in the trunk of his Audi, suffering from bruises.
The 33-year-old kidnapper was charged with "kidnapping by organized gang without voluntary release", a crime. He risks a maximum of thirty years' imprisonment and a million euros fine. He was incarcerated.
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Two of his alleged accomplices, aged 28 and 42, were also indicted on the same count for the first and for complicity for the second. They were placed under judicial supervision.
