French police arrest six over crypto-linked magistrate kidnapping
by Agence France-Presse in Lyon from World news | The Guardian on (#73DTM)
Arrests follow discovery on Friday of magistrate and her mother in a garage in south-east of country
French authorities have arrested six suspects, including a child, after a magistrate and her mother were held captive last week for about 30 hours in a cryptocurrency ransom plot.
Four men and one woman were detained, three overnight and two on Sunday morning, the Lyon prosecutor Thierry Dran told Agence France-Presse. He later confirmed a child had been arrested on Sunday afternoon.
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