Five criminals were arrested in Bolbec when they were about to remove a mother to ask for a cryptocurrency ransom from her son. The suspects are between 19 and 24 years old, and are all known to the police.
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Five people were arrested in Bolbec (Seine-Maritime), near Le Havre, while they were about to remove a 47-year-old woman on June 11, to ask for a ransom in cryptocurrency from her 22-year-old son, learned Here Normandy (ex-France Bleu) of sources close to the survey, confirming information fromEurope 1 the one you Indicate. The five defendants, aged 19 to 24, were indicted and placed in pre -trial detention last Saturday.
It was the mother who gave the alert. On May 18, this 47 -year -old Bolbec resident received a message on the signal social network inviting him to leave her home. According to the message, she and her family are monitored in anticipation of an abduction intended to extract a ransom from her 22 -year -old son, who engages in cryptocurrency. The message even describes details: the criminals planned to cut a finger to the mother, intervening at home in the absence of the rest of the family. The whistleblower finally provides him with evidence that the home has been monitored for some time.
The mother immediately files a complaint with the police, and the home takes refuge in another accommodation. An investigation is then open and the investigators discover a tracer under the mother of the mother, as well as indications of a recent intrusion at her home, in particular socks that have been able to serve as gloves and serflex. The investigation then turned to an association of criminals in order to commit a crime. Investigators go up from the tracing tag to a phone, which they put under surveillance. During the night of June 10 to 11, they notice that this phone moves from Grenoble to Montpellier, then took the direction of Normandy.
Agents of the BRI of Rouen and the OFAST (anti-structuring office) of Le Havre are therefore posted in front of the family’s home in Bolbec. At the end of the day, on June 11, they challenge five individuals and discover in their car a knife and a roll of adhesive ribbon. The suspects are aged 19 to 24, all known to the police, without anyone knowing for what types of offenses. They are domiciled, for the two youngest, in Isère, for the other three, they are from Aisne, Montpellier in Hérault and Vaucluse.
They were placed in police custody and presented to a magistrate instructor of the JIRS (specialized interregional jurisdiction) of Lille on June 14, who indicted them for “attempted kidnapping and forcible sequestration in an organized gang”. They were placed under a deposit warrant.
