Three months after the kidnapping of Iranian Elnaz Hajtamiri in Canada, a case that baffled the authorities, the family announced that they had not received any ransom requests.
On Friday, Canadian police admitted that they had not been able to locate the girl, stressing that the case had puzzled investigators.
The 37-year-old was kidnapped from a Canadian suburban home on January 12, when three armed men disguised as police officers arrived and knocked on the door, claiming they had an arrest warrant for her.
They took her barefoot in the snow
After arguments with the owner of the house, they took Hajtamiri and took her barefoot in the snow to a car, then drove her into the dark.
Since that time, he has not found anything new about the case, until the police announced that they had failed to locate Hajtamiri, and Ontario Police Inspector Martin Graham told reporters this week, according to what the British newspaper “The Guardian” reported, that he had never encountered a case such as He added that investigators had not determined a motive and had not received any ransom requests.
He also explained that they did not locate the white SUV used in the kidnapping, nor did they identify its owner. “My biggest hope is that the kidnapped woman is still alive,” Graham said. “But my biggest fear is that she isn’t.”
Expand your search
In addition, the police took the extraordinary step of communicating with the Iranian community in Toronto and Montreal, seeking to broaden the scope of their search and in the hope of finding a way to find them.
The investigators also stressed their belief that a brutal attack on Hagtamiri last December was linked to her kidnapping.
Two weeks before the kidnapping, Hajtmery was attacked in the parking garage of her apartment in Richmond Hill, a city north of Toronto. The attackers then beat her with a frying pan and left her with severe head injuries that required 40 stitches.
Canadian police (archive)
Police say they later recovered one tracker, while two other trackers were found in her car when she brought the car in for servicing in November.
After that attack, the girl, fearing for her safety, moved to live with her family in the town of Wasaga Beach, 145 kilometers (90 miles) north of Toronto, the only time she was said to have left the seaside area was on January 10, To retrieve her car, computer and mobile phone from the police. Two days later, she was kidnapped.
On Thursday, York Police announced the arrest of Riasat Singh in connection with the assault on her in the parking lot.
Singh, 23, is due to face four charges, including attempted kidnapping and attempted murder.
Police have also issued a nationwide arrest warrant for Harshdeep Benner, who faces the same charges.
An accused friend.. fingers accused after a failed relationship
It is noteworthy that Hajtamiri, also known as Tamiri, immigrated to Canada less than 4 years ago after losing her husband, and recently set up her own cake-making company after leaving the import and export business.
Canadian Police (archive)
In late January, police arrested her ex-boyfriend, Mohamed Lelo, on charges of criminal harassment, after the two broke up in October, but he tried to contact her the following month, and the police learned and launched an investigation into the relationship as to whether it was personal or professional.
Meanwhile, her family launched calls and pleas from Iran to know the fate of her daughter, 3 months after her abduction, without any sense or news, it is said.