A teenager was kidnapped and kidnapped after trying to defraud a drug buyer by extracting 1,000 euros from him, AFP learned on Wednesday from a judicial source. The buyer and two other men were charged. Nassim, 17, had given an appointment, on the night of Thursday to Friday in a parking lot in Chenôve, in the suburbs of Dijon, to a client to whom he had promised 1kg of cannabis resin in exchange for around 1,000 euros.
But, once arrived on the scene and the money given to Nassim, the "client" sees his supposed dealer and his accomplices Enzo and Sofiane flee without giving him the drugs. The story could have ended there, like so many "cores", but this client pursues the crooks and, after a brawl, succeeds in stopping Nassim.
Beaten and threatened with a Japanese sword
Then begins an epic "worthy of bad police films", explained the public prosecutor, Eric Mathais, during a press conference. The adolescent is wandering through the Côte d'Or, but also in Haute-Saône and up to Haute-Marne. He says he was threatened with a Japanese knife and saber, and beaten. Meanwhile, several of his friends and father contact the police, who follow the kidnapper's text messages to the father of the victim: they are asked to pay a ransom of a thousand euros. "Otherwise, we cut a finger."
The place of the delivery of the booty, on Friday afternoon, changes regularly, resulting in a crazy race that will last for hours and will mobilize around thirty police officers, helped by a gendarmerie helicopter.
"Adolescent profile"
The pursuit will finally stop in Sacquenay, in Côte d'Or, where the kidnapper is arrested in the evening of Friday, after having sank in a police car and injured an official. Nassim is discovered in the Audi trunk, suffering from bruises. "He's a teenager profile. He was very scared," said Magalie Caillat, regional director of the Dijon judicial police.
The 33-year-old kidnapper was indicted on Tuesday for "kidnapping in an organized gang without voluntary release", a crime offense. He faces a maximum of thirty years' imprisonment and a million euros fine. He was incarcerated. His alleged accomplices, aged 28 and 42, were indicted on the same count for the first and for complicity for the second. They were placed under judicial supervision.