Kidnappings, torture, and severed fingers: Attacks on crypto entrepreneurs shake France | International
At 8:20 a.m. on May 13, just as parents were accompanying their children to school in the wealthy 11th arrondissement of Paris, three hooded, armed men got out of a white delivery van and tried to kidnap a woman walking down the street with her two-year-old son. The father threw himself to the ground between them and received several blows to the head before a neighbor armed with a fire extinguisher appeared on the scene. Blindsided, the kidnappers took off in their van, abandoning one of the weapons on the sidewalk.
The woman is the daughter of Pierre Noizat, owner of the Paymium platform and a cryptocurrency pioneer. This is a sector being targeted by organized crime in France and this case is not atypical. The country has been…
