The French authorities have arrested greater than 12 individuals who were related to two top-class crypto focal cases in Paris, France.
The minors arrested include several minors with charges against them, including kidnappings, test kidnapping and criminal conspiracy, Le Parisien reported on May 26.
French investigators examine the likelihood that a criminal organization is behind two recently linked kidnapping cases, with social media networks getting used for recruitment.
In a recently supposedly alleged kidnapping attempt on May thirteenth, three men attempted to snap in Paris on the brilliant day in Paris, the daughter and grandson of Pierre Noizat, the co -founder and CEO of French Crypto Exchange Payman.
This attempt, which was recorded on video, shows that the alleged attempt was thwarted when Noizat's daughter fell back and intervened passers -by.
In one other case in May in May, the French authorities saved the daddy of a crypto marketing entrepreneur who was kidnapped and held for a ransom of 5 million and seven million euros.
Le Parisien reported that the authorities haven’t yet made any arrests regarding the alleged botched kidnapping of Noizat family, but as much as six people who find themselves allegedly sure to the kidnapping of the daddy of the crypto entrepreneur were identified and locked up, including the alleged kidnapper itself.
At the start of this 12 months, the co -founder of Crypto Hardware Wallet Maker Ledger, David Balland, was kidnapped by his house, with the perpetrators who allegedly demanded crypto kidnapped. Balland was then saved by the French police days later.
Security measures have been reinforced
France's Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau increased the safety measures for crypto entrepreneurs and their members of the family, who live in France originally of this month after the series of top -class attacks.
A Github page created by Jameson Lopp, a Cypherpunk and co-founder of the self-of self-custodial company Casa, shows that six incidents have taken place in France this 12 months. Half of the incidents happen in Paris.
In addition, managers strengthen their security by hiring skilled bodyguards to forestall malicious actors.
