French police mounted a weekend raid to free a man who had been kidnapped in Paris to force his crypto-millionaire son to pay a ransom, prosecutors said, adding five people were arrested. The man, whose identity was not disclosed, was traced to an address in a Paris suburb, which police raided late Saturday, May 3, the prosecutors’ office said in a statement.
He had been abducted in Paris’s southern 14th arrondissement mid-morning Thursday. One police officer, speaking to Agence France-Presse, on condition of anonymity, said four men wearing ski masks had bundled him into a delivery van.
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