Overview

• An armed gang attempted to abduct the daughter and grandson of Paymium CEO Pierre Noizat on Rue Pache in Paris’s 11th arrondissement on May 13.
• The attackers, using a van with a fake Chronopost logo, were thwarted by the victims’ resistance, the child’s father, and intervention by passersby, including one who threw a fire extinguisher.
• The woman disarmed an attacker by seizing and discarding a handgun, later identified as an airsoft replica, before the gang fled and abandoned the van nearby.
• All three victims sustained minor injuries and were hospitalized, as police launched a criminal investigation into organized kidnapping and aggravated violence.
• This marks the sixth crypto-related attack in France in 2025, part of a broader global trend of physical assaults, ransoms, and mutilations targeting cryptocurrency executives and their families.