- Most victims are aged between 20 and 35, leaked French police report says.
- Forty crypto kidnappings took place in France between 2023 and 2025.
- Two more crypto kidnappings have also taken place this year.
Overseas criminal kingpins are responsible for ordering many of France’s recent crypto kidnapping attempts, say police.
Officers say 40 cases of organised kidnapping, committed between July 2023 and the end of 2025, have been linked to crypto-related motives, police wrote in a confidential memo, French media outlet Franceinfo reported.
More than half of the cases “specifically targeted cryptocurrency holders or people working in the crypto sector,” officers said.
French crypto-related kidnapping attacks have only accelerated in early…
