US EditionKidnappers in France target cryptocurrency entrepreneurs for ransom
- A man connected to a cryptocurrency business was abducted on a Paris street Thursday morning and was freed by police near the city late Saturday after being held captive for two days.
- Four masked men forced the victim into a van, and kidnappers demanded millions of euros ransom after sending a mutilation video to his son.
- The victim was held in an Airbnb 12 miles south of Paris, and five suspects aged 23 to 27 were arrested after a police raid.
- Similar cryptocurrency-linked abductions occurred recently in France and nearby countries, including December 2024 and January 2025 kidnappings involving known crypto figures.
- Authorities investigate the case as part of a criminal conspiracy by an organized gang, while an expert noted investigators must confirm if the incidents share perpetrators.
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From the kidnapping to the assault of the BIS: the story of 58 hours of race against the clock to save the father of a magnate from cryptocurrency
RECEIVED - Thursday, in the heart of Paris, a man was kidnapped by people who were engulfed. He was found healthy except this weekend. The attackers demanded his son, an entrepreneur who had made a fortune in cryptocurrency, several million euros in ransom.
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