Man tortured for 16 hours in botched crypto kidnap attempt, say French authorities – DL News
- Attackers severed man’s finger and cut his face, police say.
- Gang mistakenly thought victim’s son was a rich crypto trader.
- Crypto-related kidnap cases are on the rise in France, data shows.
French police have arrested three men in their twenties suspected of kidnapping and torturing a 74-year-old man in a bid to extort $3.5 million worth of crypto from his son.
Officers said the trio abducted the unnamed victim at dawn on January 25 from his home in Voiron, in the Isère department in the southeast of the country, the French media outlet Actu 17 reported.
However, the would-be kidnappers aborted their efforts after learning that the man’s son was not a crypto trader at all, but actually a web developer with no significant crypto…
