Overview

• Police detained three men and a woman in Rambouillet after the group scaled a homeowner's fence at 9 a.m., seizing a switchblade and a fake handgun and stopping one suspect as he fled on foot.
• The 42-year-old target works in cryptocurrencies, and early findings indicate the suspects planned the attack because of his activity in the sector.
• No injuries or financial losses were reported, and the four suspects were placed in custody as investigators begin phone forensics.
• The Versailles brigade de répression du banditisme is leading the case, which investigators place within a broader series of kidnappings and attempted abductions of people linked to crypto wealth.
• A TF1 investigation reports police have identified a single ultra-violent network with a ringleader based in Morocco that recruits minors online, with past cases including a Palaiseau hostage whose finger was cut off after an €8 million ransom demand failed.