All news on the topic: Kidnapping

A 22-year-old American woman claims she is Madeleine McCann just days after a Polish woman who also claimed to be Madeleine was arrested for stalking her parents.

The French gangster known as ’the Fly’ has been arrested in Romania following his deadly prison escape nine months ago, according to police.

One suspect, Mehdi Nemmouche, is serving a life sentence for a 2014 attack on a Jewish museum in Brussels.

At least 82 people have been abducted since June, according to an official tally. But rights groups estimate the real number could be three times that.

Tracy Turner, 51, an operating theatre assistant at Cardiff’s University Hospital of Wales is accused of a string of charges including a plot to kidnap, rape and murder a young child.

French authorities have detained seven individuals following the violent abduction of David Balland, co-founder of cryptocurrency security firm Ledger.

A 14-year-old girl is being supported by specialist officers from Hampshire Constabulary after police were called to Fordingbridge Recreation Ground, Hampshire, as two boys were charged with rape.

Pedro Silva Ochoa pleaded guilty to kidnapping and assaulting U.S. soldiers in Bogotá.

Elliot Eastman, 26, was dragged away on a speedboat on the evening of October 17 by gunmen pretending to be police officers who shot him in the leg and abducted him

Over 70 years ago, thousands of mixed-race boys and girls were torn from their mothers by order of the state. This week five survivors hope a court will censure Belgium for crimes against humanity

Among the many horrifying videos posted online amid Mexico’s drug cartel violence, few have been as profoundly shocking as that of a 14-year-old boy kidnapped in late October along with about a dozen family members in the country’s south.

A Brussels court delivered its verdict Tuesday in the so-called Encro case, convicting 119 individuals on charges that included participation in a criminal organization, drug and arms trafficking, attempted extortion, and kidnapping, with sentences ranging from 14 months to 17 years in prison.

Members of a cult who tried to kidnap a coroner for ‘detrimental necromancy’ have been jailed.

A man kidnapped a nine-year-old girl from outside Harrods in central London before drugging and sexually assaulting her in what was ‘every parent’s worst nightmare’, a court has heard.

One TikTok video from an Isis sex slave kidnapped as a child led to a secret rescue operation to get her out of captivity.

A British prisoner serving time at a Portuguese jail for kidnap and robbery has managed to escape by ‘climbing up a ladder’.

Leonardo Bertulazzi, 65, wanted in Italy for kidnapping and other crimes allegedly committed as part of far-left group

A 40-year-old Zambian national, who was apprehended on Sunday after landing at South Africa’s OR Tambo International Airport, has been identified as a key player in a transnational organized crime syndicate involved in kidnapping, ransom, and crystal meth distribution in the country.

Three leaders of an extremist Jewish cult received lengthy prison sentences in U.S. court for the kidnapping and sex trafficking of a girl and boy, after they stole the minors from their mother in the dead of night and tried to smuggle them out of the country.

This is the harrowing moment a man attempted to kidnap a Jewish toddler and his 12-year-old brother outside a synagogue in north London in broad daylight.

An alleged anti-Semitic hate crime has been reported, with a gang appearing to threaten kidnapping a young Jewish man in north London.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping after a girl, nine, was ‘snatched’ from outside Harrods in London while her parents shopped.