
Three hooded men robbed and tied up a couple at their home on the night of Wednesday October 21 to Thursday October 22.
Three hooded men kidnapped and tied up a couple in their sixties in Mont-de-Marsan on the night of October 21 to 22 to extort cryptocurrency, leaving with a laptop.
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Targeted attacks targeting cryptocurrency holders have been recorded in France.
The safe was a house. On the night of Wednesday October 21 to Thursday October 22, three hooded men forced the door of a house in Mont-de-Marsan. As in the crypto-kidnappings already recorded in France, they targeted the cryptocurrency of a couple in their sixties, tied up in the middle of the night.
Three hooded individuals entered a house in Mont-de-Marsan around 3 a.m.
The criminals tied up a couple in their sixties with adhesive tape and serflex.
They demanded cryptocurrency and left with a laptop.
The couple's son, who works in cryptocurrency, was placed under police protection.
Thursday October 22, around 3 a.m., three hooded men broke into a house in Mont-de-Marsan, Sud Ouest revealed. Thus, the criminals woke up the occupants before tying them up with adhesive tape and serflex, these single-use plastic ties that tighten without loosening.
The husband, aged 63, allegedly received a blow to the back of the head, while the three men also threatened the two sixty-year-olds. The alleged kidnappers also allegedly demanded the handing over of cryptocurrency, without any precise amount having filtered through on the sums targeted by the three individuals.
The Bayonne judicial police are leading the investigation, while the suspects are still on the run at this stage. At the same time, the couple's son was placed under police protection. Indeed, he works in the field of cryptocurrency and lives at another address.
A laptop is no ordinary loot in a crypto assault, as it can contain wallets or private keys. In other words, an entire digital savings can fit in a backpack. Furthermore, the wallet file itself can be encrypted: the thief then leaves with a locked safe, without the combination. The house becomes the family safe, and it is this door that the three men forced open.
You still have to know where to strike. Recently, French police shut down Reacher, a stolen data engine run by three teenagers. The French authorities link these attacks to data leaks, the addresses of the holders circulating before the act.
This scenario has already played out in the Landes. In August 2026, a couple from Rion-des-Landes were allegedly kidnapped and then kidnapped for their bitcoins, reported actu.fr. Investigators found the husband naked and injured in Solferino, the wife in a car several kilometers away.
The gendarmerie blocked the road between Rion-des-Landes and Lesperon, then arrested two suspects. On the other hand, the typical profile of the targets does not exist. A 22-year-old young man robbed in the middle of the night in Tarn ended up putting his attackers to flight.

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