A few hours before Christmas Eve from December 31, 2024, in the small town of Saint-Genis-Pouilly (Ain), the postman rings at the door. Hidden behind the man grimted in postmen, three hooded men, equipped with a handgun and a knife, enter the apartment of the two peaceful fifty -year -olds. The mother is immediately tied up. The man is brutalized, forced to give to criminals the telephones, jewelry and couple clothes of the couple.
Installed in Dubai and used to highlighting his earnings in cryptocurrencythe son of the victims then receives a video call and discovers his father kidnapped by men who demand the payment of a ransom of 4 million euros I am not bitcoin. A QR code is sent to him to pay. In the process, the father of this influencer is embedded by criminals. Roué with blows and even sprayed with petrol, he will finally be discovered almost by chance by the bac on the night of January 1 to 2, tied up in the trunk of a car near Le Mans (Sarthe). Violent assaults like thisinfluencers and cryptocurrency specialists are increasingly confronted with it.
