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proposal of a full 30-day ceasefire, dismissed Putin’s move as window dressing.

PARIS (AP) — Having chopped a finger from their hostage, the kidnappers were preparing to drill one of his knees, France’s interior minister subsequently recounted.by French police freed the father of a wealthy cryptocurrency entrepreneur from the gruesome ordeal.

Although the kidnapping this month ended with a police raid and seven suspects in custody, it andare rattling France’s crypto industry.After another attempted crypto kidnapping in the heart of Paris this week, the wave of violence is also blowing up into a political issue for the government of President

— particularly the interior minister who is jockeying to possibly run for France’s top job in elections in 2027.The minister, Bruno Retailleau, met privately Friday with crypto entrepreneurs to discuss their safety and spare further damage to his tough-on-crime image and Macron’s efforts to position France as a welcoming place for cutting-edge technologies and businesses. Retailleau’s ministry urged journalists not to film the meeting participants “for reasons of security” and described it as “strictly confidential,” a measure of how the succession of extortion attempts in recent months has jangled nerves.

Men in masks tried dragging a crypto entrepreneur’s daughter into a van in an attempted kidnapping in Paris on Tuesday. Witness-shot video showed the men grappling with the woman and her husband as they clung to each other on the ground, shouting “Help! Help!” A shopkeeper who armed himself with a fire extinguisher helped chase off the attackers, throwing it at their vehicle as they clambered into it and sped away.

The woman’s father, Pierre Noizat, is the CEO and a founder of the Bitcoin exchange platform Paymium. Speaking Friday to broadcaster BFMTV, Noizat tore into French judges and politicians for what he alleged is their “lack of action.” He said his son-in-law required stitches for injuries suffered while fighting off the attackers. Noizat expressed concerns that wealthy entrepreneurs from other industries could also be targeted, saying: “I think it’s just the start if nothing is done.”Tom Fletcher, head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, briefed the Security Council, describing this work as a “grim undertaking” since

from entering Gaza more than 10 weeks ago.He went as far as saying that the council must “act now” to “prevent genocide,” a claim that Israel vehemently denied.

“I ask you to reflect — for a moment — on what action we will tell future generations we each took to stop the 21st century atrocity to which we bear daily witness in Gaza,” said Fletcher, a longtime British diplomat who took up the U.N. post in November. “It is a question we will hear, sometimes incredulous, sometimes furious — but always there — for the rest of our lives.”In response to Fletcher’s remarks, the Israeli mission to the U.N. said that “Israel will not accept a humanitarian mechanism that props up the Hamas terror organization that butchered our people in their homes and communities.” Before the blockade, the U.N. and other international aid agencies handled moving aid into the enclave.