His career as a scooter thief did not last long.
A 15-year-old boy who wanted to feel the adrenaline of the forbidden was left with quite a scare.
It was around 11 p.m. this Friday when this boy who lives in Lyon (Rhône) and who is on vacation in Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine) with his grandfather, searches on the social network TikTok how to steal a scooter.
He immediately moved from theory to practice and tried his hand on the first two-wheeler parked in a street in Rueil.
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First he forces the Neiman.
But the rest of his plan is disrupted by the arrival of the owner of the scooter and several of his friends.
The would-be thief is taken by force to a cellar.
A real ordeal begins.
The kidnappers take her cell phone, call her mother and demand a ransom of 3,000 euros if she wants to see her son again.
The police are notified and the demarcation allows them to limit a search area.
Patrols patrol the area with the help of tracking dogs.
At the same time, the teenager's relatives agree to a meeting to hand over the money.
Some kidnappers are said to be on the run
It was finally the BAC (Anti-Crime Brigade) of Suresnes which found the victim in the hall of a building around 12:15 a.m.
Everyone is arrested.
The young man kidnapped was not assaulted and the agents did not find any weapons.
The teenager explained that his captors had stolen his jacket, his AirPods headphones and his cell phone, loot which was not found.
Investigators believe they have not arrested the entire team and that three men are on the run.
The Hauts-de-Seine departmental judicial police service (SDPJ92) was informed of the facts.
The three kidnappers were taken into custody.
Initially, the Nanterre public prosecutor's office did not wish to take the teenager into custody for the attempted theft.