Gang tries to kidnap crypto tycoon's daughter in central Paris
Video shot from nearby buildings and the street showed a violent struggle after three masked men descended from a delivery van in the Rue Pache in the 11th Arrondissement and grabbed the woman and her child.
The child's father intervened and fought the would-be kidnappers until they gave up and jumped into the back of the van, which drove away. It was later found abandoned in a nearby street.
Police told the newspaper Le Parisien that the woman is the daughter of the head of a cryptocurrency platform. There was no word on her condition or
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