France Police investigate the file cryptocurrency million sensing France

The French police are investigating the abduction of investors connected to the cryptocurca after the 60-year-old man had a finger cut off attackers who requested his crypto-millionaire son pay the purchase.

The appearance of a few kidnappings cryptocurrency figures in France and west EuropeThe man, who owns a marketing company for cryptocurrenci with his son free of the house south of Paris on Saturday night. He was held for more than two days.

One of the man’s finger was cut, and investigators feared further mutilation could happen if it was not saved.

The man, who did not publicly identify, was abducted on Thursday at 5.30am at 10 pm at 10:30 p.m. while walking down the street in Paris 14. Sromlinisementu. Four men in ski masks forced it in van delivery.

It is released by the armed police in the rings at 21.00 on Saturday evening from the house 20 km (12 miles) south of Paris, in the Essonne area. The five suspects in their 20s were arrested in the house.

The State Prosecutor said in the statement: “The victim’s father seems to have created a wealth in cryptures, with a crime involving the demand of ransom.”

The victim’s wife told investigators that her husband and rich son, who had threatens the cropper of marketing company in the past, said the police source.

Le Parisien It reports that the attackers demanded a ransom of 5-7 million euros (4-6m pounds), which was not paid. Five suspects for kidnapping, aged between 20 and 27, police still questioned the police.

Kidnapping is the latest in a series of kidnappings of cryptocurrent figures in France and neighboring countries.

David Balland, co-founder of the crypt’s company Ledger, who values ​​more than $ 1 billion, he kidnapped her partner 21. January in his house in Merea, near Bourges in Central France. He also had a sliced ​​finger.

The attackers arrived at the Balland’s house in the early morning, taking it and his partner and separated them. Balland was taken to the house in the city of Chateaurouk, where one of his fingers are cut off.

The police contacted the Balland’s business partner who received a finger video together with a requirement for a large ransom in cryptocurrency, about 10 million euros. Balland soon released in the police account. His partner in the trunk of the car in the trunk was found in the parking lot in the Essonne area south of Paris the next day.

Nine suspects are under criminal investigation in this case, including the alleged half, 26, which has a police record for the previous kidnap.

In December 2024. year, the 56-year-old FRENCIAL influence of cryptocurencity based in Dubai, was the target of alleged abduction in eastern France, local media reported. The attackers arrived in a man’s home, tied his wife and daughter and forced him in the car.

The man’s son received the demand for the ransom and contacted the police. Two women were then released quickly. The father was only discovered 24 hours later in the car trunk in Normandy, tied and shows signs of physical violence, sprayed with gasoline.

Other cripptocurrant figures or their partners were reported in Spain and Belgium in the last five months.