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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Twenty-five people hauled before French judge for crypto kidnapping attempt, court says
PARIS (Reuters) -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. It was the third violent attack targeting crypto players and their families in recent months.
Reuters
3 days ago
- Business
- Reuters
Twenty-five people hauled before French judge for crypto kidnapping attempt, court says
PARIS, May 30 (Reuters) - 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. It was the third violent attack targeting crypto players and their families in recent months.
Wall Street Journal
18-05-2025
- Wall Street Journal
Severed Fingers and ‘Wrench Attacks' Rattle the Crypto Elite
PARIS—The screams echoed down the narrow street in a trendy neighborhood here early Tuesday morning: 'Help! Help! Help!' Three men in black masks had jumped on a 34-year-old woman whose father runs Paymium, a French cryptocurrency exchange. Brandishing canisters of mace and what looked like a gun, the masked men attempted to force the woman and her toddler into an idling white van disguised as a delivery truck.
