France: Attempted kidnapping of crypto CEO’s daughter and grandson shocks Paris • FRANCE 24

Bystander films an attempted kidnapping in the streets of Paris Tuesday morning. In broad daylight, a woman is dragged along the sidewalk by men in ski masks toward a delivery van. The young woman manages to throw the attacker’s gun away. Passers by, including this man with a fire extinguisher, then start to intervene, and the wouldbe kidnappers flee the scene. The van speeds away with the asalants making a close escape. Among the witnesses, the victim’s spouse who was injured as he intervened as well as this man who administered first aid. I saw a man on the ground covered in blood. So, as a health professional, I gave first aid very quickly. He was badly injured. His skull had been fractured. The woman was accompanied by her young son, says a cafe owner who knows the couple well. They took refuge in his cafe just minutes after the assault. She was with the firefighters receiving first aid along with her son. Her husband was outside. Investigators from Paris’s police force are looking into this violent attack. They’re exploring the possibility that this attempted kidnapping is linked to others in the cryptocurrency world. Attacks like this one are on the rise in France with 10 or so in the past year, each with a similar motus operandi. A kidnapping in the street followed by a demand for money. Just over a week ago, the father of a crypto entrepreneur was rescued by police after being abducted in the streets of Paris. In the nearly 48 hours he was missing, his kidnappers severed his finger and demanded a ransom from his son.

French prosecutors are investigating after a masked gang attempted to kidnap the daughter of a crypto businessman in Paris in what is at least the third violent attack targeting wealthy crypto players and their families in recent months.
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24 comments

  6. ATTENTION! Macron should fix the own issues of France before still sending money and weapons to Ukraine to the UK puppet Zelensky!

  21. Its normal, in past and even in present french looted and cheated colonised africa and asian countries and now they are paying back for their past crimes..moreover paris is more like hub of criminals. City of lol🤣🤣

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