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French businesswoman kidnapped in Nice

Police say Jacqueline Veyrac, 76, president of Cannes’s five-star Grand Hotel, was seized from her car near her home by an organised gang.

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A millionaire businesswoman has been kidnapped by an “organised gang” near her home in Nice on France’s south coast, reports The Guardian.

Jacqueline Veyrac, 76, president of Cannes’s five-star Grand Hotel, was seized from her car on Monday lunchtime, prosecutor Jean-Michel Prêtre said.

Her attackers forced her from the black 4x4 into another car in front of several witnesses, a source close to the case said.

“A woman of that age, kidnapped in those conditions – we are all very concerned,” Prêtre said.

Read more of this report from The Guardian.