Man freed on Onassis `kidnap'

Geneva - Swiss police have freed a man arrested on suspicion of taking part in an alleged plan to kidnap Athina Onassis Roussel…

Geneva - Swiss police have freed a man arrested on suspicion of taking part in an alleged plan to kidnap Athina Onassis Roussel, heir to the Onassis fortune. Police said the 36-year-old man, a security agent from the Valais canton, had been released after a week in detention, but that an investigation is continuing.

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