Police in France have charged seven people suspected of carrying out a brutal assault that saw a crypto industry professional’s parents kidnapped and tortured by attackers who filmed the ordeal — and said they wouldn’t stop unless they were paid over $9 million.

The attack, in Haute-Savoie, followed an increasingly familiar and gruesome playbook.

The victims were “bound with heavy-duty tape,” and the attackers “inflicted a head wound” on the man, a retired doctor, officers told French newspaper Le Dauphiné Libéré. They also “cut his wife’s…