The French Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau agreed with a series of measures to tighten the safety of cryptography professionals at a Friday meeting following a certain number of abductions that targeted industry figures in the country.
Measures such as the strengthening of collaboration with internal security agents to protect professionals, a security briefing provided by police units and training to prevent money laundering of cryptography were discussed at the meeting. The director general of the national police and gendarmeries and representatives of the association for the development of digital assets (Adan) participated alongside other stakeholders in the industry.
The meeting took place after the attempted removal of Tuesday on Tuesday on the daughter and the grandson of a CEO of Crypto Exchange, the third has received generalized coverage since the start of the year. In May, the father of a French crypto millionaire was kidnapped, reported the BBC. And earlier in the year, David Ballard, co-founder of the Crypto-Wallet developer, was kidnapped alongside his wife. The two men had a cut finger.
“I wanted to reiterate my shock in the face of the severity of the criminal acts that have committed themselves and my determination to put an end to these unbearable attacks targeting crypto-active professionals yesterday, just as they attacked banks and jewelry stores yesterday,” said Retailleau.
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