Three men suspected of the kidnapping and kidnapping, against the backdrop of cocaine trafficking, of a Saint-Etienne resident in order to obtain a ransom, were arrested in the Paris region and imprisoned, we learned on Wednesday June 8 from a source. judicial.
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The abductors, West Indians aged 27 to 35, were indicted at the end of last week for kidnapping and forcible confinement, extortion and attempted extortion of funds in an organized gang with a weapon
,” the official told AFP. public prosecutor of Saint-Etienne, David Charmatz.
Kidnapped in Saint-Etienne on May 29, a 30-year-old from Guadeloupe was released by the Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) in the middle of the night on June 1 in an apartment in Épinay-sur-Seine. , in Seine-Saint-Denis.
The victim was found there swollen and tied up.
His captors had contacted the partner and the mother of this man to try to obtain a ransom of 100,000 euros.
It was, according to the thugs, a "
fine
" linked to a transaction involving a kilo of cocaine which would have gone wrong in the Paris region.
The three suspects and the victim are all four known in the middle of drug trafficking, according to the Saint-Etienne prosecutor's office.
