Attempt to kidnap crypto tycoon's daughter on Paris street fails
Armed would-be kidnappers of the daughter of a cryptocurrency businessman and her two-year-old child were fought off in a Paris street on Tuesday and forced to flee, in an incident which follows two kidnappings of cryptocurrency tycoons in France this year.
ArmedArmed men are being hunted in Paris after a failed attempt to kidnap the daughter of a cryptocurrency entrepreneur and her two-year-old in the heart of the French capital.
Video shot from nearby buildings and the street showed a violent struggle after three masked men descended from a delivery van in the Rue Pache in the 11th Arrondissement and grabbed the woman and her child.
The child’s father intervened and fought the would-be kidnappers until they gave up and jumped into the back of the van, which drove away. It was later found abandoned in a nearby street.
Police told the newspaper Le Parisien that the woman is the daughter of the head of a cryptocurrency platform. There was no word on her condition or that of the child.
The incident follows two kidnappings in France so far this year targeting people linked to the cryptocurrency industry.
