The alleged kidnapping of a
25-year-old British tourist in Marche earlier this month was not
real but staged just to get the ransom money from his family,
one of four young people arrested in the case told police
Friday.
"It wasn't a real kidnapping but a sham to convince the
Englishman's family to send him 7,000 euros to make up a debt,"
said Rubens Belioga Gnaga, 18, about the alleged kidnapping of
Patrick Sam Kourosh Demilecamps, allegedly held for eight days
in a flat near Macerata and freed by Carabinieri in a raid two
days ago.
A preliminary investigations judge on Friday confirmed the
arrest warrants for Gnaga and accomplices Dona Conte, 22, and
Ahmed Rajraji, 21, all three of whom were placed under house
arrest with an electronic ankle bracelet.
The third alleged accomplice, 20-year-old Aurora Carpani, was
also placed under house arrest but without a bracelet.
Police raided the flat at at Monte San Giusto on Wednesday
afternoon and found Demilecamps handcuffed and barefoot.
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