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Over the past few months he had visited several cities including Naples, Sorrento, Florence and Bologna, before arriving in Macerata. The man told police he had been in Italy since early June after travelling there to escape the UK after the coronavirus lockdown. The man’s father contacted the National Crime Agency (NCA) in the UK, which in turn raised the alert with the Italian police. Police said he had been fed sporadically and was “psychologically tested” by the ordeal.ĭemilecamps’ alleged captors allowed him to contact his parents in the UK to ask them to send the €7,000 to secure his release, and via a coded text message his parents understood he was being held against his will.
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Police found the man handcuffed and barefooted in a darkened room with furniture pushed against the wall. One of the suspects reportedly told the judge on Friday that Demilecamps owed the group €7,000 (£5,900) and that the kidnap was staged in order to convince his family to send the money. Massimiliano Mengasini, a lieutenant colonel at the Macerata unit of Italy’s ROS carabinieri special operations group, said on Friday police were still working to ascertain the circumstances surrounding the alleged kidnap and how Demilecamps came into contact with the group.