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Story: France’s Interior Minister Targets Crypto Wrench Attacks with 3-Part Crackdown

By Dan Saada

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Training Cops to Understand Crypto Crime. The first piece is law enforcement. Nuñez wants officers trained specifically to handle…

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Tighter Rules for Crypto Exchanges. The second part of the plan hits the regulatory side.

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Tech Partnerships and Blockchain Tracing. The third leg is the one that gets into actual innovation.

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France is moving fast. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez rolled out a three-part security plan aimed squarely at the country's growing crypto crime problem — and the timing…

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The announcement lands as physical attacks on crypto holders have become a real and ugly pattern.

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The first piece is law enforcement. Nuñez wants officers trained specifically to handle crypto-related crimes — not just digital fraud in a general sense, but the technical and…

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It's a practical problem. Most street-level officers aren't equipped to handle a case where the stolen goods are a seed phrase and the crime scene is a hardware wallet.

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The second part of the plan hits the regulatory side. French authorities want stricter guidelines for crypto exchanges operating inside the country.

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No specific exchange names came up in the announcement. And the exact shape of the new guidelines wasn't fully spelled out — unclear yet whether this means new licensing…

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That's probably not a surprise to anyone watching European crypto regulation. The broader MiCA framework has already pushed the continent toward tighter oversight, and France has…

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The third leg is the one that gets into actual innovation. The plan calls for France to work directly with technology firms to build tools for crime prevention — and specifically…

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Nuñez wants both. The plan includes collaboration with international partners, not just domestic tech firms.

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Whether that coordination actually happens at the speed Nuñez is describing is another question. These things tend to move slower than press releases suggest.

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Still, the public awareness angle is worth noting. The Interior Ministry sees educating ordinary people about crypto risks as part of the job — not just catching criminals after…

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