THE 25 suspects that had been referredFriday, was indicted, the Paris prosecutor’s office said this Saturday. Among them, six minors. They are suspected of having participated in several kidnappings and attempted kidnappings in recent months to steal cryptocurrencies.
“Eighteen people were placed in pre-trial detention, three requested a delayed debate, four were placed under judicial supervision,” said the Paris prosecutor’s office.
The judicial information, according to our information, covers Two attempts to kidnap the girl and grandson of the CEO of the specialized company Paymiumon May 12 and 13, in the 11th arrondissement of the capital. But also on an abduction project near Nantes, thwarted in extremis by the Paris judicial police. In this one, Two commandos with two vans were to be used.
These attempts by Nantes and May 13 in Paris also have “links” with another case: the sequestration, on May 1, of the father of a man who made a fortune in the cryptocurrencies, said a source close to the investigation earlier this week.
These clues sketch the contours of a large criminal network. According to a report by investigators from the Brigade for the repression of Banditry in Paris (BRB), revealed by Le Parisien, the investigations uncovered “a mafia organization on several levels”, composed of “young performers ready for all abuses in order to satisfy their desire toeasy “,” Commanded on social networks “and” acting on instructions “of sponsors still unknown. The track of a common donor located in Morocco is explored.
“Taylorization of organized crime”
The black series started in January, with similar cases. At the beginning of the month, an influencer in cryptocurrencies was found in the trunk of a car near Le Mans. Then there was the confinement, at the end of January, of the co -founder of Ledger, David Ballandand his partner.
The various nets of nets in these cases revealed the recruitment on the social networks of young adults, even minors aged 16 or 17, as zealous soldiers for compartmentalized missions during all the kidnapping sequences: kidnapping, sequestration, vehicle management and rentals, logistics …
“We are witnessing a Taylorization of organized crime: each young person performs a micro-tasse, often for almost nothing, sometimes under pressure, reacted the lawyers of one of the suspects indicted on Friday evening, my Moad Nefati and Édouard Delattre. It’s distressing. For so little, they risk heavy penalties and spoil their future. The defense will be technical, but it will also be necessary to understand these disadvantaged trajectories and this instrumentalized youth. “This dossier highlights the intervention of very young profiles, banged by money and then taken in a dynamic that exceeds them, also observed Me Ambroise Vienet-Légué, advice of an 18-year-old young person arrested in Loire-Atlantique and placed in pre-trial detention. My client admitted to having been one of the fuses of a criminal machine. He bitterly regrets. »»
Solicited, several other defense lawyers – my Rachid Madid, Seydi Ba, Martin Vettes and Réda Ghilaci – did not wish to speak.
