2024-10-30 05:16:00
No one has seen “Madame” for four days. Madame is 77 years old, so the story could be one of a worrying disappearance as happens at that age. But Madame wasn’t lost, she was kidnapped. The town of Trévoux (Ain) is stunned. In the early morning of June 21, four hooded men arrived, armed in hand, in the quiet hamlet of this municipality of 7,000 inhabitants and broke down the door of a small house. The lady was there, as they expected. Here it is loaded into the trunk of a BMW. The investigations conducted by the department’s gendarmes quickly passed into the hands of other investigators, more inclined to deal with organized crime than with disappearances of elderly people: those of the specialized interregional jurisdiction of Lille.
Because, through the seventy-year-old with a clean criminal record, it is one of her children, less immaculate, who is being targeted. The lady was found four days later, shocked and weakened. And the town of Trévoux finds itself at the center of a vast international drug trafficking case – sensitive to the point of making even the use of the victim’s first initial impossible – and becomes, in spite of itself, the symbol of a growing phenomenon on the market . French territory: resort to kidnapping and kidnapping, sometimes combined with barbaric acts, to resolve commercial disputes related to drug trafficking.
A man kidnapped from the car park of a supermarket in Castelmoron-sur-Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, left for dead in March in the Migelane forest, Gironde; another, who disappeared in March 2023 in the Doubs, whose body was discovered still burning by a hiker in the municipal forest of Thise… He retraces these scenes in a few lines in the news pages of regional newspapers, the same laconic response is provided by the investigators interviewed: “Settling scores in a drug trafficking context. »
Very young teams
A return of kidnappings to the toolbox of criminal organizations, with something new compared to the golden age of delicatessens who, about forty years ago, targeted wealthy personalities to ensure a juicy return on investment: subcontracts to very young teams, compensating for their inexperience with unbridled violence. “In recent years the phenomenon has evolved from an approach aimed at recovering a ransom towards a sort of recovery method, particularly in drug trafficking, where the “narco” is less and less often involved in dirty acts, preferring to delegate the ‘one or the other teams specialize in “force operations”, or in young recruits”underlines Yann Sourisseau, head of the Central Office for the fight against organized crime.
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