A “fiction”, a “staging” to have the 7 thousand euros needed to pay a debt. Not a mysterious kidnapping nor a seizure, that of the English tourist Patrick Sam Kourosh Demilecamps, the 25-year-old freed two days ago in Monte San Giusto, in the Macerata area, with a blitz by the carabinieri of Ros that they arrested 4 young people – three boys and a girl – in the act of crime for kidnapping for the purpose of extortion. At least this is the version of the facts – still being examined by the investigators – provided to the investigating judge of the Court of Macerata, Giovanni Manzoni, by one of the four, the 18 year old Rubens Beliga Gnaga, Italian citizen. The goal, he explained in providing his reconstruction of the facts, was to convince the English family to send him the 7,000 euros necessary to pay off a loan. It would be Demilecamps himself, Gnaga argued, to engineer the ruse.
The investigating judge has validated the arrests and arranged for all domiciliary: with the electronic bracelet for Gnaga, for Donate Conte, 22 years old from Guinea, and for the Moroccan Ahmed Rajraji |, aged 21; without electronic bracelet for Aida Carpani, a 21 year old from Montegranaro (Fermo), fiancée of Dona Conte. The two boyfriends claimed to be strangers to the facts, while Rajraji made use of the right not to answer.
Gnaga, the only one who provided any reconstruction of what happened, claimed to have done the loan from 7 thousand euros to the 25-year-old Englishman, who would have proposed to repay the sum simulate a seizure in person, even having himself photographed with handcuffs on his wrists to convince his parents to pay the ransom. His reconstruction, however, clashes with the victim’s version of events, which he instead told the carabinieri that he was locked up in the apartment for eight days, mistreated, left to fast and to have undergone various humiliations.
He then said that when he was allowed to call the family members to ask for the money, he managed to send one help request. The family then alerted the National Crime Agency British. From there one triggered international collaboration with the Carabinieri del Ros and then with the operations department of Macerata and the Monte San Giusto station. The investigations, carried out over 36 hours, led the military to do break-in in the apartment, in via Carducci. Here Demilecamps was found locked up in a dark room with furniture in front of the windows, barefoot, handcuffed and very tried, a circumstance that contrasts with the version that would see him as an accomplice of the kidnappers. On the one hand, Gnaga’s story is plausible compared to the request for a ransom of only 7 thousand euros, on the other hand there are still many aspects to be clarified, starting with the roles of the four boys, all uncensored, who had met the young Englishman during the summer.