You alleged that on July 11th 2017
you were kidnapped in Milan, Italy.
Yes.
Take me through that day.
You got email instructions...
on where to go.
Who was the email from and what did the instructions say?
It was from Andre, but both the Paris and Milan
was on an Andre email.
It stated that he might not be able
to come to the front of the studio before,
so if that's the case then I should just walk in.
When you get to the location,
you get out of the cab.
I tried to open the door but it was locked,
so I think that didn't match what the email
said about just walk in.
So again, I called the contact number that was on the email.
So I said, "Where's Andre?"
And he said, "Andre doesn't get here 'til nine,
but I'm in the studio, so just come in."
And then I said, "the door's locked."
And then he said, "No, you've obviously got the wrong door."
And so then I walked down a couple doors,
and it was like a smaller building
which was number seven, and it said
the company name on the door.
Okay, tell me what happens then.
I had my suitcase in one hand,
and my purse and my phone in the other hand.
I opened the door, put my luggage in,
and I went around the corner,
and then still silence, and I still didn't see anyone,
so I didn't really know where to go.
So I was about to put my hand onto the door to open it
to check if anyone's there,
and that's when I was attacked from behind.
So, a guy puts his hand around my neck,
and his other hand with a glove on my mouth and my nose.
I was struggling to breathe, I couldn't breathe at all.
I was trying to get his finger off my nose
so I could at least catch a breath.
Eventually I manage to.
Another guy ran around to the front,
he had a black mask on with two
separate eye holes and a mouth,
and he was holding a syringe to my arm.
So I was trying to fight back.
I'm trying to like, kick about but I could fight off
two grown men, so they managed to tackle me to the ground,
and eventually the syringe went into me,
and that's when I lost consciousness.
And show me on your arm where the syringe went in.
It was here.
Right in here?
Yeah.
How long did it take for you to go unconscious?
Straight away.
Did you ever find out what they used?
Ketamine.
And how do you know that?
Lucas, the one posing as Andre told me it was ketamine
while I was being held, and then it was found
in my hair sample that the police took.
Lucas is Andre.
Yes.
But at the time I only knew him as Andre.
I found out his name from the police reports.
Okay.
And you think that there were how many men
total involved on this whole trip?
From Lucas had led me to believe,
there was two Romanians that took me,
then Lucas, then the driver, and then Lucas' boss, C.K.
Two Romanians, Lucas.
The driver.
And the boss, C.K.
And you don't think that's true?
I don't think that's true, no.
So you think Lucas and Michael
were the only two involved?
Yeah.
And they're brothers.
Yes.
What's your next conscious awareness?
I woke up and I was in, like a duffel bag.
I had tape on my mouth, my wrists were handcuffed
and so were my ankles, and I didn't have my clothes
that I came into the studio in,
I just had, like a bodysuit and socks.
So they had taken off my jeans,
my trainers, and my jacket and my hat.
Okay.
So you're in a duffel bag.
Zipped up?
Zipped up, and I had a little hole to breathe from.
This is a recreation that the police did.
So was that the position they put you in?
Yes, I was curled up, yeah.
Where's the duffel bag?
It was in a moving car, in the boot.
You were in the trunk.
Yeah.
So I managed to peel the tape off my mouth,
and I was sticking my hands through
the little hole that they had left me,
and I was saying, "Driver, where are we?
What's happening?"
I was just trying to get the attention of the driver,
and it took a while before the car actually pulled over.
What happened when the car stopped?
Two masked men came around the back of the car,
opened the boot, literally didn't say anything,
and put my hands back in the bag,
put the tape still over my mouth again,
just secured me more.
Zipped up the bag, shut the boot,
and then carried on driving.
How long before you stopped the next time?
About 20 minutes, not long.
They both around to the back,
but this time they took the handcuffs off
and put them behind my back.
Okay, so you're off again?
Mm hmm.
How long this time?
Again, about 20 minutes.
This time when they stopped,
the guy was unmasked, and he got into the boot with me.
What'd you think when you saw his face?
He was obviously foreign.
How do you know?
Just looks, doesn't look English.
And then he was able to speak to me,
but he spoke in brief English, but not very good,
and he had an accent.
I was trying to talk to him, and say,
"What's happening, where are we going?"
And he kept saying, "Nobody hurt you."
You know when someone can't speak well English,
but they're still trying.
Like, "Nobody hurt you, I promise, don't worry."
Like trying to reassure me.
And when I was like, "Well who's that driving?"
And he was like, "I don't know."
I was like, "Where are we going?"
"I don't know."
He always claimed not to know where we were going.