GERMANY: THE SON OF FRIEDRICH VON METZLER, CHIEF OF ONE OF GERMANY'S OLDEST BANKS, HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED AND HELD DESPITE PAYMENT OF A ONE MILLION EURO RANSOM

Record ID: 648340

  • Title: GERMANY: THE SON OF FRIEDRICH VON METZLER, CHIEF OF ONE OF GERMANY'S OLDEST BANKS, HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED AND HELD DESPITE PAYMENT OF A ONE MILLION EURO RANSOM
  • Date: 30th September 2002
  • Summary: (W7) FRANKFURT, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 30, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SL (NIGHT SHOT) OF BUS STOP WHERE 11-YEAR-OLD JAKOB VON METZLER WAS LAST SEEN AFTER SCHOOL ON FRIDAY (SEPTEMBER 27) AROUND 10:30 A.M. (0830 GMT) AFTER GETTING OFF BUS NUMBER 53 0.05 2. CLOSE-UP OF BUS STOP SIGN 0.10 3. SLV (NIGHT) EXTERIOR OF GATES AT PRIVATE HOME OF VON METZLER FAMILY, NEAR BUS STOP 0.15 4. SLV TWO MEN SEEN BEHIND GATES 0.29 5. SLV POLICEMEN STANDING IN STREET OUTSIDE GATES, PAN TO ENTRANCE 0.39 6. SV OF ENTRANCE TO PRIVATE PROPERTY WITH POLICE CAR OUTSIDE 0.44 7. SLV POLICEMEN AT GATE 0.54 8. CLOSE-UP OF CLOSED CIRCUIT CAMERA 0.59 9. SV POLICEMEN TALKING TO EACH OTHER 1.04 10. PHOTOGRAPH RELEASED BY POLICE OF JAKOB VON METZLER 1.18 11. PAN (NIGHT) EXTERIOR OF METZLER BANK 1.29 12. CU SIGN READING METZLER-HAUS 1.39 13. SLV TRAFFIC GOING PAST METZLER BANK 1.44 14. SV LIT WINDOWS IN BANK 1.50 15. CLOSE-UP OF DOORBELL 1.55 16. SLV PEOPLE WALKING PAST BANK 2.03 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 15th October 2002 13:00
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  • Location: FRANKFURT, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA1OGRL0FIUXDZL06V5IHU0QKWL
  • Story Text: The 11-year-old son of Friedrich von Metzler, chief of
    one of Germanys oldest private banks, has been kidnapped and
    is still being held despite payment of a one million euro
    ransom,
    Frankfurt police have said.



    Jakob, heir to the Metzler private banking dynasty,
    disappeared after he walked home from school in Frankfurt on
    Friday (September 27), police said on Monday night (September
    30) after a three-day news blackout.

    Jakob was last seen walking the short distance between the
    bus stop and his home in the Frankfurt district of
    Sachsenhausen. Within an hour, a letter arrived at his home
    demanding one 1 million euros ($989,000).

    Police, who have detained two people, said they had no
    idea where Jakob was being held.

    Jakob von Metzler has not been released by his kidnappers.

    His whereabouts are not known, the police said in a statement.

    Friedrich von Metzler heads the private bank which has
    passed through 11 family generations dating back to 1674, and
    is known as an art lover in the Frankfurt area.

    In 1996, Jan Philipp Reemtsma, heir to a German tobacco
    fortune was abducted in one of Germanys most high-profile
    kidnappings and was released after 33 days after his family
    paid
    a record ransom of $14.3 million.



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