PANews reported on May 17 that according to Politico, in view of the recent increase in cryptocurrency-related kidnappings in France, cryptocurrency entrepreneurs and their families will receive enhanced security measures. The French Ministry of the Interior said that these measures include priority calls to the police emergency hotline, door-to-door visits, and security briefings by law enforcement agencies to provide best practice advice. Law enforcement officers will also receive "anti-crypto asset money laundering training." "In response to the repeated kidnappings of professionals in the cryptocurrency industry, we will take immediate and short-term concrete measures to combat them in order to protect the industry," said Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau in a statement.
Since the beginning of this year, there have been at least three kidnappings of cryptocurrency industry leaders or their families in France. Earlier news , France will hold a crypto industry security meeting to deal with the series of kidnappings. This decision follows an attempted kidnapping in Paris on May 13, when the daughter of a French crypto entrepreneur and her grandson were attacked by four masked gangsters on the street, but fortunately they escaped with minor injuries . It is reported that the woman is the daughter of the co-founder and CEO of the French crypto trading platform Paymium. In recent years, there have been many kidnappings related to crypto wealth in France, including the kidnapping and torture of Ledger co-founder David Balland in January this year.
