Last November, six men entered the former home of the parents of Inoxtag in Orgeval. The criminals, suspected of an attempted kidnapping on the Youtubeur, were placed in police custody.
On November 18, 2024, six men burst into the garden of a Orgeval house, in the Yvelines. It was around 7:30 am, when the owners faced three hooded, gloved silhouettes, with a dummy point weapon. Without waiting, the attackers attack the couple: they jostle the woman – about to call for help – and give her companion a butt.
Troubled, the house was inhabited by the parents of the creator of stainlessness content, of his real name Inès Benazzouz. At the time of the attack, however, they had been there for a few years. There is “no relation to the parents of the Youtubeur, even if it was a house that belonged to them,” said the Versailles prosecutor’s office at the time of the facts, adding that the accommodation had already been sold “for some time”
Investigators suspect that the criminals were not informed of this change of owner and that they actually intended to remove Inoxtag or one of his family members in the hope of obtaining a ransom. A hypothesis corroborated by the behavior of the six men before entering the places of the offense. For an hour, they have indeed watched the house from the garden aboard a van.
Suspects already known to the police
Since Tuesday, January 28, the six men have been in police custody in the premises of the Judicial Police of Versailles, indicates RTL. They are suspected of “attempted theft in a band organized with weapon, attempted arrest, kidnapping sequestration or arbitrary detention in an organized gang, participation in an association of criminals for the preparation of a crime and violence with use or threat to ‘A weapon followed by incapacity not exceeding 8 days, and concealment in an organized flight gang committed on November 18, 2024 in Orgeval, “explains the public prosecutor.
Among the suspects, all aged about twenty, “two were extracted from their cell for this police custody, since they were incarcerated for other facts. The role of each remains to be determined,” said franceinfo. Some of them would therefore not be at their first try.
Previously, Inès Benazzouz had already been the target of two burglaries at his home, which occurred in 2024, during his ascent of Everest. Very followed on social networks, it has 8.9 million subscribers on YouTube, 6.3 million on Tiktok and nearly 6 million on Instagram. The documentary on his ascent, entitled “Kaizen: 1 year to climb Everest”, was seen 41 million times on YouTube since its online on September 14.