- Attackers subjected elderly couple to two-day ordeal, police say.
- Gang reportedly demanded a $9 million ransom from a crypto industry figure.
- Suspects charged with organised crime.
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…







