Passers-by helped to foil the attempted kidnapping by armed assailants of the daughter and grandson of a French cryptocurrency boss in Paris, in a brazen daytime attack that was caught on camera.
The incident prompted Paymium, the Crypto firm owned by the father of the woman targeted, to demand “protections” for companies in France’s cryptocurrency sphere. Tuesday morning’s attack in Paris’s 11th district is the latest in a string of violent incidents targeting figures in France’s burgeoning crypto industry, including two attacks in recent months and at least five since 2023.
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