Cryptocurrency boss’s daughter avoids abduction of a band in Paris

A masked gang tried to abduct the daughter and the young grandson of the Chief of Cryptocurrency in Paris, but after a violent struggle, they set off empty -handed.

The Botched abduction offer was filmed a video by a viewer in the 11th neighborhood of Paris, in the eastern part of the French capital.

Police sources said the woman was the daughter of the chief of the cryptocurrency company. She and her husband fought with three attackers as passers -by rushed to the rescue and the men fled to a van.

The Paris Police Brigade is expected to deal with an armed robbery to study the attack, which is the most in a series of abductions aimed at French cryptocurrency figures or their relatives.

The attack unfolded around 08:20 local time on Tuesday, according to local media, when three men jumped from a white van and tried to abduct the mother and her child.

The couple is described as relatives of the co -founder of the French Bitcoin Paymium exchange platform, AFP reported.

The husband of the woman who was with her family at the time tried to protect them and was repeatedly beaten over her head. The couple called for help as the masked men tried to unfold them.

At one point, she was seen to take a firearm from the attacker and throw him out. Later, the weapon is described as a replica pistol.

The street was relatively occupied at the time and a group of children were on the way to a local primary school.

Initially, passers -by seemed too afraid to intervene, but as the locals began to react, the three attackers eventually gave up and jumped into the van, as the fourth member of the gang expelled them. A man threw a fire extinguisher to the van when he withdrew.

The family is treated for minor hospital injuries.

The Rue Pache’s kidnapping boots came just over a week after French The police saved A millionaire’s father at the cryptocurrency who was abducted in another area of ​​the capital as he walked his dog and held a ransom.

In an indication of the brutality of the bands involved, the victim was released three days later after his abductors cut one of their fingers.

Several people were arrested.

Last January David Balland, co -founder of the cryptocurrency portfolio company, was abducted with his wife at their home in Central France.

French media say the victim has disappeared one finger When it was saved from a house in Palais, to the south of Paris.