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Crypto chief daughter's kidnap horror: Moment armed thugs try to force woman and toddler into van (Paris, France)
Daily Mail ^ | May 13, 2025 | KUMAIL JAFFER

Posted on 05/13/2025 5:01:34 PM PDT by lowbridge

Flailing and struggling amid a brutal assault, this is the moment the daughter of a major cryptocurrency company executive and her two-year-old child were the victims of a violent attempted kidnapping in Paris.

The 34-year-old was walking down Rue Pache in the capital yesterday morning when three armed men approached her.

The group tried to force her and her toddler into a white van after hitting the child's father, who tried to intervene.

Footage filmed by an onlooker from his apartment window also shows the woman - believed to be the daughter of a top crypto exec - grab a handgun belonging to the attackers before throwing it away.

In the footage, as he is being beaten, the father appears to be yelling: 'Help! She's pregnant!' 

The victims' screams eventually attracted attention, which led to the attackers fleeing in their van.

Passers-by can be seen arriving on the scene ready to assist as the assailants scrambled to freedom, with one desperately throwing a fire extinguisher at the van.

The vehicle was later abandoned on a nearby street, according to Le Parisien. The outlet also said the child, who did not appear in the video, had tear gas in his eyes.

One witness, 61-year-old Jean-Jacques, said: 'I heard screaming so I went outside.

'I saw hooded and armed men running away and I turned my head and saw a man with a bloody head, he was lying on the ground. There was blood everywhere.

'I cauterized the wound.'  

Jean-Jacques, who is in his 60s, said he treated the mother and child for teargas in their eyes, cleaning them with saline solution.

Others joined in the rescue, before the kidnappers fled, leaving a fake gun lying on the ground.

-snip

They then abandoned their stolen vehicle a few streets away.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; France; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cryptocurrency; france; frances; paris

1 posted on 05/13/2025 5:01:34 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Video

https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1922270623927095427

https://x.com/RadioRomaX/status/1922271809665114609


2 posted on 05/13/2025 5:03:59 PM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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In Florida there would have been several bullet holes in the attempted kidnappers and the van wouldn’t be in great shape either.


3 posted on 05/13/2025 5:04:06 PM PDT by Waverunner
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To: lowbridge
...daughter's kidnap horror: Moment armed thugs try to force woman and toddler into van (Paris, France)

Just another average day in IslamoNazi Vichy, Surrender Monkey, Frog, France.

4 posted on 05/13/2025 5:17:00 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: lowbridge

She kicked like a mule and bit like a crocodile!

It’s amazing that she was able to fight them off long enough for bystanders to intervene.

The cowards sure slinked off fast when the tables turned.


5 posted on 05/13/2025 5:32:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: lowbridge

You want to live around an armed populace, like in the US.

Bad people die.


6 posted on 05/13/2025 5:35:03 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: lowbridge

Well. These Frenchmen didn’t surrender.


7 posted on 05/13/2025 5:59:02 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: ConservativeMind

The last (and first) time I was in Paris, my very smart daughter, who lived in Belgium at the time, told me to ignore the “poor” Muslim women crying on the streets because they had no money. Rotten Muslim men drove them out there every morning to lie on the sidewalks to beg for money.


8 posted on 05/13/2025 5:59:39 PM PDT by Veto! (Trump Is Superman)
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Europe is becoming a cesspool. Criminals drove off with the back door of the van still open because no one there has guns except criminals, police and politicians and they’re all worthless.


9 posted on 05/13/2025 6:12:53 PM PDT by doc maverick
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There are democrats in Paris?


10 posted on 05/13/2025 6:17:26 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Navy Patriot

The intended victims didn’t look like “surrender monkeys” to me.


11 posted on 05/13/2025 10:01:26 PM PDT by Silentgypsy (In my defense, I was left unsupervised.)
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To: Waverunner
In Florida there would have been several bullet holes in the attempted kidnappers and the van wouldn’t be in great shape either.

Yes, but in Florida, it wouldn't have been an attempted kidnapping.

In Florida, it would have been about a woman complaining that her portion of Chicken McNuggets was too small.

Probably same outcome, though.

Regards,

12 posted on 05/13/2025 11:01:49 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Silentgypsy
The intended victims were intended victims BECAUSE of the Frog Surrender Monkeys.

If France wasn't filled with Surrender Monkeys, the intended victims and their associates would have been properly trained an prepared, and would have opened fire on the would be kidnap gang, riddling them on the spot.

13 posted on 05/14/2025 7:29:23 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: lowbridge
Proverbs 15:16
“Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.”
14 posted on 05/14/2025 7:39:41 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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Footage filmed by an onlooker... shows the woman... grab a handgun belonging to the attackers before throwing it away.

What an idiot.

Get thee some range time, woman!

15 posted on 05/14/2025 12:32:17 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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She appeared to be very pregnant. How awful! Glad she had the hormones to fight!


16 posted on 05/14/2025 12:36:17 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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To: Albion Wilde

Never bring a gun to a hormonal, pregnant girl fight.


17 posted on 05/15/2025 9:57:18 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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