From the video, it might have seemed a moment as unexceptional as it was fond -- a boy playing soccer with his father on a sunlit lawn, sending messages of affection back home to his mother. 'Mummy, I miss you,' the boy with the shaved head and big eyes tells the camera at the prompting of his father. But the images of Sahil Saeed, age 5, and his father, Raja, made public on Thursday, offered a closing chapter in a harrowing saga of kidnappers, cops, ransom and surveillance that reached from Pakistan's Punjab province to the streets of Paris and, finally, to a suitcase stuffed with bills in an apartment near Barcelona. The trail led the police to arrest three suspects in Spain and two in Paris, although the suspects in France were later released. Sahil and his father, both from Oldham, in northwest England, were on vacation with relatives in Jhelum, Pakistan, when armed robbers burst into the house where they were staying on March 4 and seized the boy, demanding about $155,000 for his release. Kidnappings are not unusual in Pakistan, but this one became prime-time, front-page news in Britain, with close-up shots of bereft and weeping relatives filling television screens while the boy's whereabouts remained a mystery -- until Tuesday when the boy was found wandering alone in fields 10 miles from Jhelum. As the authorities in Spain, Britain, Pakistan and France pieced together the story, the police got their first break when a call from the kidnappers to Sahil's father, demanding ransom, was traced to Spain. The callers told Saeed, 28, to go to the northern English city of Manchester, near Oldham, but when he got there, he was told in another phone call to head to Paris with the ransom money. By this time, according to the official account and news reports, an international police operation was under way. As Saeed handed over the ransom money to two people on a street in Paris, a surveillance team tracked the exchange and followed the presumed kidnappers to the village of Constant?, in Spain's northeastern region of Catalonia. When Sahil walked free thousands of miles away in Pakistan, a Spanish SWAT team stormed the apartment house near Barcelona and seized roughly $147,000, cell phones and a computer. The Spanish police also arrested two Pakistani men and a Romanian woman, who was accused of having traveled to Paris with one of the men to take the money from Saeed. The two people arrested in France were later determined to have housed the people who received the ransom, but were not involved in the scheme, the French police said. Pakistan has not yet announced any arrests. The boy and his father, reunited in Islamabad, flew back to Britain on Thursday, news reports said. 