Kidnapped after a chase, a man is found shot and wounded in Roubaix
The sequence of events almost resembles a film script. It is around 9 p.m. this Sunday evening when a chase starts from Wasmes, west of Mons in Belgium. Both cars are running for more than fifty kilometers, exchanged fire and crossed the border with France. One of the two ended up rolling over at the entrance to Toufflers, rue du Château de Wasmes, around 9:45 p.m.
The 22-year-old passenger was found alone at the scene of the accident
When help arrived, the other car disappeared. In the damaged vehicle, only the 22-year-old passenger remains. She witnessed the whole scene and explains that her companion was kidnapped. The young woman suffers from back pain, she was injured at the Roubaix hospital center with minor injuries. “The driver was forced by several individuals to get into another vehicle”specifies the parquet floor of Lille.
An investigation for attempted homicide and kidnapping in an organized gang
The scenario would not be complete without a most astonishing end since the driver, taken hostage, is finally found this Monday morning with a bullet wound. He had to be hospitalized.
Three of his kidnappers were arrested and taken into custody. An investigation for attempted homicide, kidnapping and kidnapping in an organized gang has been entrusted to the zonal direction of the judicial police. It will have to determine the required circumstances of this accident on funds of account settlements.