French Police Detain Seven in Cryptocurrency Kidnapping Attempt

Seven individuals have been apprehended by French authorities in connection with the attempted kidnapping of a 20-year-old Swiss man. A coordinated operation involving 150 members of the elite National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN) resulted in the successful rescue of the victim from Valence, France. The operation targeted a snack bar on Rue d’Asti in Valence’s Fontbarlettes neighborhood. The abductee was discovered tied up and held at a house nearby the city’s high-speed TGV train station.