In this episode of La Loupe, Xavier Yvon explains the hunt for “crypto-criminals” with Anne Cagan, head of the Tech section at L’Express.
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The team: Xavier Yvon (presentation and writing), Marion Galard (editing) and Jules Krot (directing).
Credits: Euronews, 6medias video, Mouv
Music and dressing: Emmanuel Herschon/Studio Torrent
Picture credits: Eric Beracassat/Hans Lucas/AFP
Logo: Anne-Laure Chapelain/Benjamin Chazal
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Xavier Yvon: Imagine a playground with children running behind each other. They’re playing an age-old game that you’ve probably played yourself: “cops and robbers.”
It is possible that you have forgotten the rules, I remind you of them, they are simple: the “gendarmes” must catch the “thieves” by touching them with their hands. Once caught, the thieves go to “jail”, in a predefined area of the yard. The thieves who are still running can free their comrades by touching them and they too have a delimited space, a “den” where the gendarmes cannot come and catch them.
We are back in the adult world, where there are real cops, real thieves and real prisons but no place where criminals would be unreachable by the police, it remains a schoolyard fiction.
Finding a way to escape the authorities for good is the obsession of “real” criminals. Some thought they finally had this Holy Grail when they saw cryptocurrencies appear, virtual money that can be exchanged in one click, anonymously, all thanks to a transaction system that goes beyond States, and therefore their law enforcement agencies.
But, as you will discover in this podcast, the gendarmes are finding ways to seek out thieves even in this new digital “den”.
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