PARIS: French police have arrested seven people after a weekend raid to free a man who was kidnapped in Paris to force his crypto-millionaire son to pay a ransom, prosecutors said.
The man, whose identity was not disclosed, was traced to an address in the Essonne department south of Paris that police raided late on Saturday, the prosecutors´ office said in a statement.
He had been abducted in Paris´s southern 14th arrondissement mid-morning on Thursday. One police officer, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, said four men wearing ski masks bundled him into a delivery van as passers-by looked on.
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