Overview
- Two suspects born in 2001 and 1994 were charged in Paris on Friday and placed in pre‑trial detention in connection with the May 1 abduction.
- The case involves the kidnapping of the father of a cryptocurrency figure, seized by four masked men in central Paris while he walked his dog.
- The victim was held for 58 hours, suffered the amputation of a finger, and was freed by police from a house in Palaiseau.
- Authorities say 17 people are now under formal judicial investigation after several waves of arrests since May, with an unusually large police deployment.
- The investigation covers organized kidnapping with torture or acts of barbarity, organized extortion, organized money laundering, and criminal conspiracy, set against a wider 2025 rise in crypto‑linked ransom cases.