An “sequestration and torture” operation was thwarted this Monday thanks to a collaboration in French and Belgian police.
A flow of violence of little avoided. The project was soon to materialize without the intervention of French and Belgian police. To the alleged orders? Ten French people, including a minor. Arrested this Monday in Belgium this Monday, they are suspected of having prepared a sequestration and torture project on a victim, whose name was not revealed by the Brussels prosecutor’s office. In total, eight of them were indicted for attempted theft with violence in an organized and incarcerated gang. For his part, the minor was presented to a jurisdiction for children.
According to information fromEurope 1Police from the BRI of Versailles (Yvelines) conducted a meticulous and emergency investigation to manage to stop them. The facts date back to Saturday March 8. In charge of a judicial investigation in France, the BRI of Versailles realizes that the occupants of a suspect vehicle could commit, in an imminently, a violent act on unidentified targets, reports the Parisian.
A first tracking on the night of Sunday to Monday
“After finding that this vehicle went to Brussels, and fearing that the potential victims (s) live there, we immediately opened an investigation,” said the Brussels prosecutor’s office Last hour. The criminals make a first location in the night of Sunday to Monday in a residential area of Braine L’Alleud in the southern suburbs of Brussels. But “around 05:40, shortly before suspicious people and vehicles arrived at the targeted location, the special units proceeded to the interception of individuals”.
During the searches, the investigators also note “the presence of equipment which could suggest a place of sequestration and torture”, adds the prosecution. According to Europe 1, the victim targeted by the team of criminals could be a “multimillionaire”. This investigation work “undoubtedly made it possible to avoid, with regard to the discoveries carried out, a fact of rare violence,” said the authorities.