a man violently attacked at his home, amid a cryptocurrency scam

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The attack took place at his home. Saturday November 2, 2024 in the evening, a 45-year-old man was kidnapped and beaten by two men at his home in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. According to information from Parisianconfirmed by the Paris prosecutor's office actu.fran investigation into organized theft and aggravated violence was opened and entrusted to the second district of the judicial police.

According to our colleagues, two men entered the victim's home before hitting him with iron bar blows and stabbing her in the calf. The forty-year-old was able to be taken care of by emergency services before being transported to Lariboisière hospitalwhere his vital prognosis was not in jeopardy.

An attack against a backdrop of fraud

The victim would be an entrepreneur, coach and “leadership speaker” adept at multi-level marketing. This pyramid selling technique, popular in the commercial sphere, is the source of many financial scams. OmegaPro, a cryptoasset investment platform, closed its doors in 2023, leaving thousands of victims. Asked by The Parisianthe investigative journalist and specialist in financial scams, Philippe Miller, the victim of the attack which occurred this weekend “largely contributed to developing OmegaPro “. “A lot of people are likely to blame him,” explained the journalist who works for the Warning Trading site. No less than 2,000 French people have filed complaints as part of this scam, our colleagues say.

The Paris prosecutor's office emphasizes for its part that there is “no other element at this stage, in particular on the possible criminal record of the victim”.

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