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France deploys new security measures to protect the crypto of entrepreneurs after the rash of violent kidnapping triggers caused an alarm in the country’s technological sector and set political pressure on the Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, AP News 16.
The ministry confirmed that Retailleau had met privately with the founders of crypto to discuss personal security.
According to the report, the meeting was marked as “strictly intimate” and journalists were asked to shoot participants “for security reasons”.
The government now offers affected individuals priority emergency support, elite police consultations and domestic infrastructure assessment.
Retailleau, who will stand as a hard candidate for crime for the presidential race of 2027, said he was determined to stop these “unbearable” attacks.
Escalating threat
Crypto-raised ransom abduction and crime in France have grows more often In the last year, with several cases in recent months.
According to Eric Lachevêque, co -founder BookOver the past 12 months, there were 50 known attacks on the world -class worldwide in Kryptovia, of which 14 occurred in France.
Larchevêque, who attended a Friday meeting, said RTL that he believed that after the discussions they “understood what was at stake”.
Concerns are governed by an important case in January, when a collaborator of Lachevêque and his wife was kidnapped for the ransom.
Recently, the police intervened in a separate case where the hostages related to the crypt of the entrepreneur had the finger interrupted by officers on the spot before the raid. In this case, seven suspects were arrested.
Unsuccessful kidnappings captured on video
The last incidentCaptured in video 14th May, included masked men who tried to shove the daughter of the general director of Paymia Pierre Nozat for the delivery in daylight.
The shots showed that the woman and her husband were fighting the attackers on the sidewalk as the passers -by shouted for help. In the end, the local trader forced the suspect to flee by throwing a fire extinguisher on their vehicle.
Nozat told reporters that his son -in -law requires stitches after the attack and accused judges and politicians of “lack of conduct”. He warned that these crimes would increase if the government did not develop serious efforts to stop them.
The increased reaction of the Ministry of the Interior is aimed at stopping concerns that the violent crime could derail French digital financial ambitions that were the highlight of the economic strategy of President Emmanuel Macron.
