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What happened: The incident is the latest in a spate of “$5 wrench attack” crypto kidnappings that have swept France in recent months.
What to watch next: movement around knifepoint, officers.
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Decrypt(center)
The incident is the latest in a spate of “$5 wrench attack” crypto kidnappings that have swept France in recent months.
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The attack follows a series of bitcoin-linked kidnappings and extortion attempts in France.
Read full original ›DL News(center)
French police arrest 12 as probe into spate of violent crypto kidnappings widens dlnews.com
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They said they were police, but pulled a knife and stole $1m in Bitcoin dlnews.com
Read full original ›Jacobin(far-left)
First-round results suggest the French left can hold its ground in this month’s local elections. This positive outcome comes despite a campaign defined by an acrimonious civil war between the center-left establishment and France Insoumise. The price of disunity is that the Left is at best holding it
Read full original ›Daily Wire(right)
President Donald Trump took a brief question from a French reporter on Monday, and immediately proceeded to jab at French President Emmanuel Macron as he answered. The reporter asked Trump whether or not he’d been in contact with Macron about plans to force the Iranian regime back and reopen the Str
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Swarm Claim
Armed attackers force French couple to transfer $1 million in bitcoin during home invasion.
Decrypt · link
Fake Police Officers Held French Couple at Knifepoint in $1M Bitcoin RobberyThe incident is the latest in a spate of “$5 wrench attack” crypto kidnappings that have swept France in recent months.
The Block · link
Armed attackers force French couple to transfer $1 million in bitcoin during home invasionThe attack follows a series of bitcoin-linked kidnappings and extortion attempts in France.
DL News · link
French police arrest 12 as probe into spate of violent crypto kidnappings widens - dlnews.comFrench police arrest 12 as probe into spate of violent crypto kidnappings widens dlnews.com
DL News · link
They said they were police, but pulled a knife and stole $1m in Bitcoin - dlnews.comThey said they were police, but pulled a knife and stole $1m in Bitcoin dlnews.com
The attack follows a series of bitcoin-linked kidnappings and extortion attempts in France.
French police arrest 12 as probe into spate of violent crypto kidnappings widens dlnews.com
They said they were police, but pulled a knife and stole $1m in Bitcoin dlnews.com
First-round results suggest the French left can hold its ground in this month’s local elections. This positive outcome comes despite a campaign defined by an acrimonious civil war between the center-left establishment and France Insoumise. The price of disunity is that the Left is at best holding it
President Donald Trump took a brief question from a French reporter on Monday, and immediately proceeded to jab at French President Emmanuel Macron as he answered. The reporter asked Trump whether or not he’d been in contact with Macron about plans to force the Iranian regime back and reopen the Str
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The attack follows a series of bitcoin-linked kidnappings and extortion attempts in France.
Crypto · archivedFrench police arrest 12 as probe into spate of violent crypto kidnappings widens dlnews.com
Crypto · archivedThey said they were police, but pulled a knife and stole $1m in Bitcoin dlnews.com
Crypto · archivedPresident Donald Trump took a brief question from a French reporter on Monday, and immediately proceeded to jab at French President Emmanuel Macron as he answered. The reporter asked Trump whether or not he’d been in contact with Macron about plans to force the Iranian regime back and reopen the Str
Politics · archivedFirst-round results suggest the French left can hold its ground in this month’s local elections. This positive outcome comes despite a campaign defined by an acrimonious civil war between the center-left establishment and France Insoumise. The price of disunity is that the Left is at best holding it
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