According to Maghreb Arab Press, a government news agency.
At the request of the French authorities, a joint operation of the National Brigade of the Judicial Police of Morocco (BNPJ) and the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) placed the suspect of the police of 24 years French, according to a press release from the Moroccan police distributed by MAP. The press agency described the man, who was identified by the French press as Badiss Mohamed Amide Bajjou, as a brain of crimes.
“I sincerely thank Morocco for this arrest, which demonstrates the excellent judicial cooperation between our two countries, in particular against organized crime,” said French minister Gérald Darmanin in a translated declaration on the social site of the media X.
Interpol said Bajjou had been sought for organized extortion, kidnapping and violence, according to a so-called “red notice” displayed for humans.
The French authorities have already billed more than two dozen people – including six minors – in the wave of crypto kidnappings in Paris, most of them linked to the attempted abduction of May 13 of the Pierre Noizat family, CEO of Exchange Paymium.
Still in May, the father of a French cryptographic millionaire was kidnapped in a case similar to the previous seizure of David Ballard, co-founder of the Crypto Ledger developer, and his wife. The kidnappers cut the finger of each of the men.
After these recent cases, the French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau organized a meeting with people involved in the crypto to discuss measures to keep them safe.
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