In this case, two suspects were already in pre-trial detention. Two new people have been imprisoned in the investigation into the kidnapping of the father of an influencer at the end of August in Sarthe, the Le Mans prosecutor’s office announced on Friday. On Tuesday, eight new suspects, five men and three women, were arrested and placed in police custody, suspected of having participated as perpetrators or accomplices in the acts of kidnapping, sequestration and extortion by an organized gang in Cures (Sarthe). ), operation for which 150 gendarmes were mobilized, according to this source.
“Triggered after a period of observation and monitoring, the operation led to the arrest of the first two individuals, apprehended on the public highway by the GIGN in the Yvelines department,” indicated the public prosecutor of Le Mans. Delphine Dewailly in a press release. “A few hours later, five others were arrested at their home and a sixth taken from a remand center following recent incarceration,” she added. At the end of their police custody, two of them “among the most active” were placed in pre-trial detention after their indictment.
The son pays the ransom
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 prosecutor’s office, announcing the following week the indictment of two men implicated in this kidnapping.
The influencer immediately received at his vacation spot “a video in which his father appeared, tied up, 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.