Attempted Kidnapping of Crypto Executive's Daughter in Paris

Attempted Kidnapping in Paris

• 🎯 A masked gang attempted to kidnap the daughter of a crypto businessman in Paris on Tuesday.
• 📹 Graphic video footage of the attack, filmed by an onlooker, shows masked men struggling with victims near a getaway van.
• 👨‍🚒 A shop owner, identified only as Nabil, intervened with a fire extinguisher, which he believes ended the altercation.
• 🚓 French prosecutors have opened an investigation into the attempted kidnapping, assigning it to an organized crime unit.

Pattern of Attacks on Crypto Wealth

• ⚠️ This incident is at least the third violent attack targeting wealthy crypto players and their families in recent months.
• 🔗 In January, one of the co-founders of French crypto company Ledger was kidnapped for ransom with his wife and later rescued, having lost a finger.
• 💸 In early May, the father of another French crypto player was kidnapped for ransom and rescued by police days later, also missing a finger.