Crypto Millionaires Targeted in Brutal Abduction Spree Across Europe – Sri Lanka Guardian
A wave of violent kidnappings targeting cryptocurrency millionaires is spreading alarm across Europe, with French police recently rescuing a man whose captors severed one of his fingers while demanding a multi-million euro ransom.
The elite GIGN police unit stormed a house near Paris on Saturday night to free the victim, a 60-year-old investor involved in a Malta-based cryptocurrency marketing firm run by his son. The man had been abducted two days earlier in broad daylight on a street in Paris’s affluent 14th arrondissement by four masked men who bundled him into a delivery van.
According to reporting by The Times (UK), the kidnappers demanded between €5 million and €7 million. The man’s ordeal closely…
