The daughter of the head of the cryptocurrency is evading the kidnapping of a gang in Paris

A masked gang tried to kidnap the daughter and grandson of a young man, the head of an encrypted currency in Paris, but after a violent struggle, they went out of empty -handed.

The failed kidnapping show was taken on a video by a warrior in the eleventh region of Paris, in the east of the French capital.

Police sources said that the woman was the daughter of the head of a cryptocurrency company. She and her husband fought three attackers until they rushed to help them and the men fled in a car.

It is expected that the Paris Police Brigade, which deals with armed theft in the attack, is the latest in a series of kidnappings targeting the French cryptocurrencies or relatives.

The attack is revealed at about 08:20 local time on Tuesday, according to the local media, when three men jumped from a white car and tried to kidnap the mother and her child.

The news agency told AFP that the couple is described as relatives of the co -founder of the French Paymium Plastic platform.

The husband’s husband, who was with his family at that time, tried to protect them and hit again and repeatedly on his head. The couple shouted to help as the convincing men tried to dismantle them.

At some point, I was seen seizing a firearm from the attacker and throwing it on the street. The weapon was later described as a symmetrical air pistol.

The street was relatively busy at the time and a group of children was on their way to a local primary school.

Initially, passers -by before they looked very afraid of intervention, but when the locals began the reaction of the three attackers at the end, they surrendered and jumped to the truck when a member of the fourth gang brought them out. A man threw a fire extinguisher in the truck while accelerating it.

The family was treated for minor injuries in the hospital.

The failed kidnapping on Pache Street was a few more than a week after French The police saved The father of a millionaire coded currency was kidnapped in another area of ​​the capital while walking his dog and held for the ransom.

In reference to the brutality of the gangs concerned, the victim was released three days after his kidnappers cut one of his fingers.

Many people were arrested.

Last January, David Balind, co -founder of the Cryptocurrency Wallet, was kidnapped with his wife in their home in central France.

The French media says that the victim had one missing finger When it was saved From a house in Balsu, south of Paris.