The kidnapping of a Tunisian football player .. and the authorities are moving

The Public Prosecution Office in Tunisia has ordered the detention of four people on charges of kidnapping and robbing a 19-year-old footballer in the Bardo region, according to Tunisian media.

Russia Today reported on Mosaic FM radio that "the victim complained to the security units about the presence of four people who had intercepted him in the Bardo area, and one of them threatened him with a knife and forced him to accompany them to their house in the neighborhood of Tahrir, indicating that the kidnappers detained him." Inside the house after diverting his destination, they stole his mobile phone and a sum of money of 105 dinars, then asked him to take off his clothes and photographed him using a mobile phone and threatened to publish his pictures in the event of a complaint against them.

The player added: "The kidnappers asked him to consume a drug (hashish) and a narcotic tablet, and they beat him after he refused, by punching and kicking him all over his body, and they deliberately detained him for a whole night and released him the next day after they seized a mobile phone and a sum of money."

Mosaique FM radio confirmed that "after the security forces moved to the kidnappers' house, the defendants were found, along with the cell phone of the victim and a group of other mobile phones of unknown origin."

She explained: "The main accused, who took the publicity of the knife, said that the football player and his girlfriend rented a room in their house for 40 dinars and refused, after spending their night, to pay the required amount, pointing out that he destroyed the player's mobile phone to urge him to pay the amount and he was going to return it to him after that, which is what His companions confirmed this during their hearing, while the Public Prosecution authorized the detention of the accused while completing the investigations.

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