Five people indicted after a kidnapping in the Ain

Five people were arrested, indicted and placed in pre-trial detention on Tuesday, on Friday June 20, the public prosecutor of Bourg-en-Bresse, in a press release consulted by Franceinfo. They are suspected of having removed, violated and then kidnapped a cryptocurrency entrepreneur, in Saint-Genis-Pouilly, in the Ain, on the night of December 31, 2024 on January 1, 2025.

During this evening, the cryptocurrency entrepreneur refused to settle a ransom. He was “sprayed with petrol and transported in the trunk of a car” Before being rescued “by officials of the Le Mans bac”Indicates the prosecutor, specifying that his vital prognosis has not been committed.

The five arrests, conducted on Tuesday, took place in Sarthe and in the Yvelines. Among the five arrested are a minor of 17 years and four adults between 18 and 22 years old. Four of the respondents are prosecuted for “armed robbery, extortion, aggravated violence, arrests, kidnappings, sequesters or arbitrary detentions committed in an organized gang”. The last accused, a 22 -year -old man, was prosecuted as an accomplice.

The prosecutor of the Republic of Bourg-en-Besse specifies that in the state “No link has been established with other cases of kidnappings linked to the cryptocurrency sector, but the investigating judge’s investigations are continuing.”