Four Armed Men Tie up Family in French Crypto Home Invasion

Key Takeaways

• The national news outlet La Voix du Nord reports that four armed men stole €40,000 in crypto during a two-hour home invasion in Vendin-le-Vieil.
• France now accounts for roughly 80% of documented physical crypto attacks in Europe.
• The French Anti-Cybercrime Office is tracing the €40,000 to find how the crew picked targets.

La Voix du Nord, the daily newspaper for northern France, disclosed that a group of four men dressed in black forced their way through the front door of a family home at 4 a.m., carrying at least a knife and an iron bar. Le Parisien confirmed the report and noted that the kidnappers bound the couple and their two young children with black tape, separating the father while placing the mother and kids under guard.

For the next two hours, the attackers reportedly punched and threatened the father until he handed over his account codes and login details to transfer roughly €40,000 in cryptocurrency. Then they vanished. By the time firefighters found the family in shock around 7 a.m., the digital money was gone. The terrifying part is not just that this happened. The problem is that it keeps happening, and almost entirely in one country.

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