French police arrest five over crypto-linked magistrate kidnapping | France
French authorities have arrested five suspects after a magistrate and her mother were held captive last week for about 30 hours in a cryptocurrency ransom plot, prosecutors said on Sunday.
The arrests of four men and one woman followed the discovery on Friday of the 35-year-old magistrate and her 67-year-old mother, found injured in a garage in the south-eastern Drome department, the Lyon public prosecutor’s office said.
During a press conference later on Friday, the Lyon prosecutor Thierry Dran said the magistrate’s partner – who was not home when the pair were abducted overnight Wednesday to Thursday – had a leading position in a cryptocurrency start-up.
A massive police search involving 160 officers was launched after he…
