Lyon, Feb 8, 2026 (AFP) - French police arrest five over crypto-linked magistrate kidnapping

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2026-02-08

French authorities have arrested five suspects after a magistrate and her mother were held captive last week for around 30 hours in a cryptocurrency ransom plot, prosecutors told AFP on Sunday. The arrests of four men and one woman followed the discovery of the 35-year-old magistrate and her 67-year-old mother on Friday, found injured in a garage in the southeastern Drome department, the Lyon public prosecutor's office said. During a press confer......

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