On March 21 in Sabadell (Barcelona), the Mossos d’Esquadra arrested a 52-year-old man who had faked his kidnapping and who asked his mother for a ransom of 2,500 euros, posing as the captors, threatening her that they would damage if you did not make the payment.
According to the Catalan police, after receiving a series of messages in which her son told her that if she did not pay the requested 2,500 euros, the captors would harm her son, the woman went to the Sant Cugat del Vallés police station to file a complaint. .
The Mossos gave credibility to the kidnapping and began the investigation, which finally led them to locate the suspect, who was walking on a street in the center of Sabadell. The agents identified him and the man, who could not maintain his version of his kidnapping, ended up confessing that he himself had sent the messages to get money from his mother to pay personal debts that he had contracted.
The agents then arrest him for the crimes of simulating a kidnapping and conditional threats to his mother for profit. The police remember that simulating crimes is punishable in the Penal Code. After going to court, he was released with charges.
