Daylight kidnappings and torture: Insane crypto crime wave
In a trendy New York neighbourhood in May, a shoeless and dishevelled man bleeding from the head desperately approached a police officer: alleging he had been tortured for 17 days including being waterboarded, electrocuted, urinated on, cut with a saw, held upside down over a staircase, and threatened with his family’s murders.
The same month, in broad daylight in a fashionable Paris suburb, a 34-year-old mother out with her toddler screamed for help as masked men brutally tried to drag her into a white van made to look like a delivery truck.
In January, a French crypto star opened a video that showed one of his business partner’s fingers having been cut off by kidnappers.
These are ‘wrench attacks’, a spate of violent and often…
