Crypto millionaires targeted in brutal kidnappings across France and Europe

In brief: There has been a spate of kidnappings taking place across France and Western Europe in which victims are cryptocurrency investors. The most recent incident involved the owner of a crypto marketing firm having his finger cut off by attackers. Police say the man could have been mutilated further had he not been rescued. The unidentified 60-year-old man was abducted in broad daylight at 10.30am on Thursday morning while walking down Paris' 14th arrondissement, writes The Guardian. Four men forced him into a delivery van. The man owned a cryptocurrency marketing company with his millionaire son, whom kidnappers demanded pay a ransom of between $5.3 million and $8 million in crypto. The victim was held at a house for two days, during which time his finger was cut off to send to his son. The man was freed by armed police in a raid at 9pm on Saturday night from a house 12 miles south of Paris. Five suspects in their 20s were arrested. The ransom had not been paid. This incident ... Read full article.