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An analysis of more than 10,000 Polymarket transactions shows how a handful of accounts and a viral social media push inflated the odds on French mayor David Lisnard's presidential bid — far above his 3.5% Ifop polling score.
Paris will levy 17% on dormant bank savings held by Caisse des dépôts to raise €1.4 billion, while millions of lost bitcoins remain entirely beyond the reach of French tax authorities.
The US Treasury has sanctioned a financing network involving two French associations, accusing them of converting charitable donations into cryptocurrency that reached Hamas's armed wing. Three people were arrested in France.
A couple near Montpellier has been targeted twice within six months in crypto-related home invasions, as French prosecutors report a sharp rise in kidnappings and abductions linked to digital assets since 2023.
Three masked men broke into a home in Taverny, France, using stolen data from crypto tax platform Waltio to try to extort cryptocurrency from a family. Six suspects have since been indicted.
French exchange Paymium has told customers their personal data was exposed after a breach at email provider Brevo, the same incident that triggered a phishing campaign against Trezor users.
A family of four was tied up and threatened overnight in Vendin-le-Vieil, northern France, as intruders forced the father, who works in crypto, to hand over roughly €40,000. Four suspects remain at large amid a surge in violent attacks on crypto holders across France.
Four suspects have been indicted, three placed in pretrial detention, over a violent home invasion in Taninges targeting a woman's crypto assets, part of a surge in physical crypto crime recorded by French prosecutors.
The Autorité nationale des jeux is looking into whether Robinhood's predictive markets activity falls under French gambling law, as the American broker sponsors Ligue 1 club OGC Nice this season.
Chainalysis estimates $9.4 billion in potentially taxable crypto activity in France for 2025, against just €368 million in declared capital gains last year, as the EU's DAC 8 reporting directive approaches in 2027.
A group broke into a home in Vern-sur-Seiche believing it belonged to a cryptocurrency holder, detaining and assaulting the occupants before fleeing once they realised their mistake. The case adds to a growing tally of crypto-linked abductions across France.
The Paris prosecutor's office has confirmed the indictment and pretrial detention of an 18-year-old suspected member of ZeroBytes, the group behind a breach of France's tax authority that exposed nearly 680,000 files.
A fraudulent letter posing as an official notice from France's tax authority DGFiP is circulating among cryptocurrency holders, using a QR code to redirect victims to a phishing website.