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A bad attempt to kidnap the daughter and grandson of Pierre Noizat, the co-founder and CEO of the French Crypto Exchange Paymium, was foiled after the daughter and the passersby were reported to have fought the kidnappers.
Three masked men attacked Noizat’s daughter and a male partner on May 13 as he walked with his son in the 11th Paris District. Assailants tried to force Noizat’s daughter and her son to wait for the van, the outlet owned by the France’s state France24 reported on May 13.
The partner’s partner was attacked when he tried to intervene, but Noizat’s daughter fought and managed to take one of the guns in an assailant in a scuffle and throw it away, police said.
In the middle of Paris, a person was violated by people with a hood, wearing black. They are trying to remove it. Someone got up, putting out a fire, to scare them. →https://t.co/P0QV6PR40V pic.twitter.com/9f4r2gi7ho
– le figaro (@le_figaro) May 13, 2025
Later, the people passing through the intervening, and the masked assailants fled the van, found nearby. All three victims suffered injuries and was taken to a local hospital.
Local Outlet Le Parisien reported That botched daylight kidnapping is being investigated by the brigade for suppression of banditry, a special police unit of the French Ministry of the Interior.
Michael Englander, Co-Founder and CEO of Polish Crypto exchange plasbitThe incident says this should serve as a wake-up call for the rest of the industry.
“If you are in Crypto and are still released online, you are not just stupid, you put your family in danger,” he Says In a post of May 13 at X.
Attacks linked to crypto are growing
Crypto -focused lawyer Sasha Hodder Says In X that “Crypto theft is emerging. It’s not just social engineering or sim swaps now.”
In May, Las Vegas police said three teenagers Accused of someone at gunpoint returning from a local crypto event and robbed him of $ 4 million in crypto and unimaginable tokens (NFTS).
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On May 3, Paris police The father was released of a crypto businessman held many days related to a 7 million euro ($ 7.8 million) kidnapping plot.
At the start of the year, David Balland, co-founder of the Crypto hardware wallet manufacturer of Ledger, was Abducted from his home in Central France In the early hours of January 21. He was captive until a police operation on the night of January 22 gained his release.
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Jameson Lopp, a Cypherpunk and co-founder of self-customial firm Casa, created a List In the Github recording dozens of Crypto robbery, with 22 crypto-related incidents in connection with Crypto to date.
A study at the University of Cambridge in September Found The so-called “wrench attacks” are often suppressed by terror and involve different groups of attacks that come from organized crime groups to friends and family.
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