🚨🇫🇷Crypto Ransom #Kidnapping in Paris (2025-05-04)
🔹#Victim : Father of a wealthy cryptocurrency entrepreneur.
🔹Abduction: Taken by four masked men in broad daylight in Paris' 14th arrondissement on Thursday morning.
🔹Ransom #Demand : Reportedly between €5M–€7M in crypto transfers. No payment was made.
🔹#Rescue : Freed on Saturday night during a BRI (Research and Intervention Brigade) raid in Essonne, France.
🔹Injuries: Victim had a finger severed; further mutilation was feared.
🔹#Arrests : Five suspects detained, aged between 18 and 27.
🔹Past Threats: The victim and his son (running a Malta-based crypto marketing company) had previously received threats.
🔹Investigating Units: BRB (Banditry Repression Brigade), judicial police, cybercrime unit (BL2C), and BRI.
🔹This follows a similar crypto-related kidnapping in January involving Ledger’s co-founder, also involving mutilation and ransom videos.
