Bois De Boulogne Kidnapping
On 9 August 1977, Bernard Mallet, President and Director-General of E.F. Hutton (France), was kidnapped in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, while walking his dog. He was approached by eight men while walking towards his car, one of whom called out his name and then temporarily blinded him using a teargas canister. He was handcuffed, hooded and transported to an abandoned café where he was chained to rings set into cement inside a wooden bread store. Mallet's kidnappers had been under surveillance by members of the French police's anti-gang squad, the Brigade de recherche et d'intervention, who were able to apprehend the gang and release Mallet.
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