A man is kidnapped, but he is not the target. The kidnappers took the man to his friend’s house, who was the real target. The first man was just a decoy to get the second man to come out of his house, but that didn’t happen. All the drama in Calgary, Canada, left police shocked as they had never seen such an elaborate plan before. They said the kidnappers and targets were both from the city’s South Asian community.Four men have been arrested and a fifth man has been charged. The incident occurred on May 6.Between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m., the suspect assaulted and threatened the first man at gunpoint and kidnapped him from a residence in Edmonton. They then drove to Calgary, heading to the next victim’s home, where more suspects were waiting.The kidnappers asked the first man to call their intended target, the second man. He refused and police said he was attacked again.The second man and his wife, fearing for their lives, tried to leave the home, but the suspect threatened them with a gun. They returned inside and called police.The next morning, the suspect drove the first man back to his home. He also called the police.Calgary Police Chief Jeff Bell said the man suffered minor injuries, but it was “obviously a very traumatic situation for him and it will take some time for him to recover mentally and physically.”Police arrested two men during a traffic stop the night of the alleged kidnapping, and arrested two more on May 12.
None of the suspects are Canadian
Although all suspects are from Calgary, none are Canadian. Daksh Gautam, 25, Taranveer Singh, 24, Pardeep Singh, 24, and Akashdeep Singh, 18, all face charges of kidnapping with a firearm, unlawful confinement, assault and assault with a weapon.Police are looking for Gagandeep Singh, 29, also of Calgary, on charges of armed kidnapping, assault with a weapon, assault and false imprisonment. Police said he had a tattoo of a woman on his right forearm and a blue and red eagle on his left forearm.Their immigration status varies, including expired work visas or refugee claimant status. As part of the investigation, police seized a privately manufactured firearm, sometimes referred to as a “ghost gun.”Bell said this is the first time Calgary police have seen such an alleged extortion-related kidnapping. “The extortion incidents we’ve seen in Calgary so far have been a significant escalation in violence,” he said.
Modena Mayor Massimo Mezzetti said four people were seriously injured, two of whom were in critical condition, Reuters reported. The driver, described as a man in his thirties and an Italian of North African descent from the Bergamo area, allegedly deliberately drove the car onto the pavement before crashing into a shop window.“The driver appeared to have deliberately driven the car onto the pavement, hitting several people and smashing into a shop window. Then he got out of the car and brandished a knife,” Mezzetti said.A man who tried to stop the driver suffered minor injuries during the incident. Witnesses told local media they heard people falling and saw cars speeding towards pedestrians, with one witness claiming the driver appeared to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs, but authorities have not officially confirmed this.Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed solidarity with the victims and their families in a post on X, calling the incident “extremely serious.” Police are continuing to investigate the motive behind the attack.“My condolences go out to the injured and their families. I also express my gratitude to the citizens who bravely stepped in to stop the perpetrators and to law enforcement agencies for their response,” she wrote.
This quote from Queen Elizabeth II feels very similar.At first glance, this sentence seems gentle. Almost like advice an elder in the family might give after observing people for decades. But then you realize something interesting. After several years of experience, Queen Elizabeth did not speak. During her more than seventy years in office, she met thousands of people from different countries, cultures, backgrounds and professions and witnessed generations of growth and change.This gives the quotes a slightly different weight.Because these are not words based on a moment or an emotional response. They sound more like observations accumulated slowly over a lifetime.Maybe that’s part of the reason people are still connected to it.
TOI reporter in Washington: US President Donald Trump slowly returned to the White House on Friday carrying seeds of discord from Beijing, despite claims to the contrary. Xi Jinping’s promise to send Chinese rose seeds to the White House Rose Garden was intended as a diplomatic bouquet, but instead underscored the increasingly fraught relationship between the world’s two biggest powers as their 36-hour summit was dominated not by trade or tariffs but by the explosive Taiwan issue.Although Trump declared his trip to Beijing a “huge success” and a “historic moment” in brief comments to reporters (contrary to his typically gushing engagement), the U.S. foreign policy establishment concluded that the summit exposed a shift in the balance of power and that Taiwan had become a central fault line in Sino-U.S. relations. 
