Four states mobilise to end Swedish kidnapping FOREIGN Edition

On Thursday, Mr Westerberg was told to fly to Luxembourg with EUR1.2m. The next day, he received a call telling him to go to Luxembourg's central train station. There, his mobile phone rang and a voice told him to search the left-luggage lockers. In them, he found another phone, which rang. He...

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Published inIndependent (London, England : 1986)
Main Author Alex Duval Smith in Paris
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London (UK) Independent Digital News & Media 19.08.2002
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Westerberg, Erik
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Summary:On Thursday, Mr Westerberg was told to fly to Luxembourg with EUR1.2m. The next day, he received a call telling him to go to Luxembourg's central train station. There, his mobile phone rang and a voice told him to search the left-luggage lockers. In them, he found another phone, which rang. He was told to rent a car and drive towards Paris. Finally, Mr Westerberg was directed to Nogent-sur-Marne, on the outskirts of Paris. He was instructed to leave the ransom money under a bridge where two motorways intersect - one leading to Lille and the Belgian border and the other towards Strasbourg and Germany. After doing so, he drove away. "I immediately phoned my wife in Sweden," Mr Westerberg said. "In the same instant, I was surrounded by French police cars and we just waited together on a road siding. An hour and a quarter later, the Swedish police phoned us to say [Erik Westerberg] was safe."
ISSN:0951-9467