The press tycoon whose grandson was kidnapped

Night of January 20-21, 1985. Location of Zuoz, in the Swiss canton of Grisons. Two shadows move silently through one of the rooms of the Lyceum Alpinum boarding school, where the children of Central Europe's great fortunes study. The two masked men wake a nineteen-year-old young man who was sleeping peacefully and convince him to accompany them when they show him a pistol. After hours of travel in a car confined to the trunk, they lock him in a room and force him to record a message intended for his family in which he asks for a ransom of 15 million German marks, a fortune in itself (about 825 million pesetas at that time, or almost 5 million euros).

The press tycoon whose grandson was kidnapped

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