Four masked men tried to abduct the daughter and grandson of a cryptocurrency chief in Paris, but after a violent struggle they drove off empty-handed.
The botched kidnap was captured on video by an onlooker in Paris’s 11th district, in the east of the French capital.
Police sources said the woman was the daughter of a cryptocurrency company boss.
She and her husband fought off the attackers until passers-by rushed to their aid and the men fled in a van.
A Paris police brigade that tackles armed robbery is expected to investigate the attack, which is the latest in a series of abductions targeting French cryptocurrency figures or their relatives.
According to local media, the attack unfolded at about 08:20 local time on Tuesday, when three men leapt from a white van and tried to kidnap the mother and her child.
The pair is described as relatives of the co-founder of French Bitcoin exchange platform Paymium.
