Night of January 20, 1985. Location of Zuoz, in the Swiss canton of Grisons. Two masked men move silently through one of the rooms of the Lyceum Alpinum boarding school, where the children of Central Europe's great fortunes study. They wake a 19-year-old young man who was sleeping peacefully and convince him to accompany them when they show him a pistol. After hours of travel in a car confined to the trunk, they lock him in a room and force him to record a message for his family in which he asks for a ransom of 15 million German marks, quite a fortune (about 825 million pesetas at that time, or almost 5 million euros).

The German press group Axel Springer, owner of publications such as Bild, Die Welt or Politico, has completed the purchase, this Friday, of one of the benchmark newspapers of the UK right, The Daily Telegraph. The European communications giant is paying 655 million euros for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, ousting, in a lightning operation, the bid from Jonathan Harold Esmond Vere Harmsworth, great-grandson of Rothermere, owner of the company Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), which controls The Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday.