Amchit Child Released after '$50,000 Ransom' Paid
Abducted child Ricardo Jaara was released Monday after a three-day kidnap ordeal, media reports said.
“Jaara was freed this afternoon after he was kidnapped two days ago near his house in Amchit,” LBCI television reported.
“His father headed to (the northern border district of) Wadi Khaled, where he handed $50,000 to a man riding a motorcycle,” it added.
According to MTV, Lebanese security authorities have managed to identify the kidnappers, who include "Lebanese and Syrian nationals." It said efforts are underway to locate them and arrest them.
LBCI had reported Sunday that the captors lowered the ransom “from $250,000 to $100,000.”
It said the family received a phone call from “a Syrian number operating on the Syrian network.”
“There are suspicions that the kidnappers are in the border area between Lebanon and Syria,” LBCI went on to say.
Y.R.
06 July 2015, 19:56
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I hope they will be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
07 July 2015, 13:04
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Our authorities must show NO leniency, they should be found, arrested and once tried beyond reasonable doubt, they should be executed in public. The hardest treatment should be meted unto the culprits because once this dirty culture begins, no on is safe anymore, do you people understand me?
