A disturbing trend in France targeting crypto entrepreneurs has come to light. In the latest case, the daughter and grandson of French cryptocurrency firm CEO narrowly escaped a kidnap attempt by armed men in Paris on Tuesday in broad daylight.
Four masked men assaulted a couple and their child in the French capital's 11th district, police sources were quoted by AFP. All three suffered minor injuries and were rushed to hospital.
The incident was caught on camera. It can be seen in the video, three masked men jumped out of a van and tried to force the woman and her child into the vehicle, the sources said. They thrashed and attacked the woman's husband with a blunt object, when he tried to intervene.
The attackers had a handgun which the woman grabbed and threw away during the struggle.
The woman's screams alerted the passers-by who rushed for help when a resident threw a fire extinguisher at the masked men who the fled in the same vehicle.
Attack On Father Of Crypto Entrepreneur Father
Earlier this month, a 60-year-old man's finger was severed by attackers who demanded his crypto-millionaire son pay a random. The man, who has not been publicly identified, was abducted in broad daylight as he walked down a street in Paris’s 14th arrondissement. Four masked men in forced him into a delivery van.
After being held hostage for more than two days, armed police freed him from a house south of Paris, where five suspects in their 20s were arrested.
