Two months after the indictment of two men, eight new suspects were arrested on Tuesday and placed in police custody as part of the investigation into the kidnapping of the father of an influencer-streamer in Sarthe, a t -we learned from a source close to the matter. “A legal operation took place very early this Tuesday morning in connection with the kidnapping of the father of the YouTuber TeufeurS”, committed on August 24 in the village of Cures (Sarthe), this source told AFP, confirming a information from Parisian.
“Eight people were arrested and are currently in police custody. These are mainly young adults, men and women,” she said. The arrests took place mainly in the Paris region but also in Loiret, Orne and Haute-Garonne.
A ransom demand
The father of TeufeurS, who made his fortune in online gambling and appeared on Twitch and Youtube, was the victim of an individual posing as an Amazon delivery man who rang his home, where he found alone. He had been “immediately taken by force into the vehicle by several individuals”, indicated the Le Mans public prosecutor’s office.
The influencer, whose real name is Kilian Desnos, immediately received at his vacation spot “a video in which his father appeared, tied up, with his mouth taped, an automatic weapon pointed at his head,” with a ransom demand. . “Despite the recommendations made by the investigators, the son paid the requested ransom” to free his father, indicated the prosecution. The victim was then released in Sarthe and picked up by motorists, without having suffered physical violence or mistreatment.
Investigators were able to identify the fake deliveryman as well as a second individual known for armed theft and criminal conspiracy. Both were indicted as part of a judicial investigation for extortion by an organized gang with weapons, arrest, kidnapping, arbitrary detention of hostages committed by an organized gang. They were placed in pre-trial detention and face life imprisonment.