PARIS: A Parisian shop-owner who helped stop a masked gang from kidnapping the daughter of a French crypto businessman has been hailed as a hero after he rushed on the attackers with a fireplace extinguisher.
French prosecutors are investigating after a gang on Tuesday (Might 13) tried to kidnap a girl recognized by the native press because the daughter of a crypto boss. The brazen tried kidnapping on the streets of Paris is not less than the third assault towards French crypto trade gamers in current months, underlining rising threats to the trade’s rich entrepreneurs.
Video broadly shared on social media reveals three masked males wrestling with two individuals on the bottom, the lady and her husband, whereas a van waits close by. A person can then be seen dashing in direction of the attackers with a fireplace extinguisher, earlier than they escape into the again of a getaway van. The person then throws the extinguisher on the departing car.
Passersby on Wednesday cheered the person, who gave his identify solely as Nabil, as he spoke to Reuters outdoors his bicycle store in Paris’ eleventh arrondissement.
“You are a champion,” one girl stated, whereas one other man referred to as out to him from throughout the road.
“Thanks very a lot. That is sort,” Nabil replied.
