A mother and her ten-year-old son are now free after being kidnapped for around 20 hours while the father was being extorted for hundreds of thousands of euros.

Counter-terrorism officers from the Groupe d’intervention de la Gendarmerie nationale (GIGN) freed the pair from a hotel room in Val-de-Marne at around 06:00 local time on Tuesday morning after they were abducted from their home in Burgundy on April 13.

According to franceinfo, which first reported the incident, GIGN officers recovered the hostages, who were unharmed.

The mother and son were held by a criminal gang that demanded “several hundreds of thousands” of euros from the father, who is reportedly a…