Edouard-Jean Empain
See also: Empain
The Baron Edouard-Jean " Wado" Empain (born the October 7th 1937) is a Belgian business man and president-director-general of the group Empain-Schneider since 1971. He is the grandson of the general baron Edouard Empain and sons of Jean says Johnny Empain and of Rozell Rowland. With died of his father, it is adopted by Edouard, a cousin of his father who marries his mother.
January 23rd 1978, it is kidnapped at the exit of its residence Paris IEN, which occurred Foch. Its kidnappers, directed by Georges Bertoncini, will ask for a ransom of 80 million Francs French (brought back then to 40 million) and will cut down it by sound left Auriculaire to make pressure on the family. After several attempts at release, at the time of the last, it will be slackened the March 28th 1978 close to a subway station. The lawsuit of its kidnappers took place in December 1982, they will bail out from 15 to 20 years of imprisonment.
He will tell that on its return, alone its Labrador was glad to re-examine it. Its family, her friends and her collaborators had already buried it, its relations with those were degraded completely until it cuts the bridges and begins a new life.
Works
- life concerned , Edouard-Jean Empain, Jean-Claude Lattès
See too
See also: Business Empain
External bonds
Bio on affaires-criminelles.com