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Twenty-five people hauled before French judge for crypto kidnapping attempt

Twenty-five people hauled before French judge for crypto kidnapping attempt

Makini Brice and Elizabeth Howcroft
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Twenty-five people will be brought before an investigating judge on Friday for attempting to kidnap the daughter of a wealthy crypto businessman and for criminal conspiracy, the Paris court said.
Videos of the brazen kidnapping attempt, which took place in broad daylight on a Parisian street, were filmed and disseminated on social media, and showed three masked men wrestling with two people while their getaway van idled nearby.

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