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fromFortune
3 days ago

Crypto attack saw victims endure waterboarding, sexual assault in $1.6 million Bitcoin robbery | Fortune

In the latest in a string of violent crypto robberies, a four-person gang held a Canadian family hostage overnight and stole about $2 million CAD ($1.6 million USD) in Bitcoin. The attackers threatened to kill the family, waterboarded the mother and father, and sexually assaulted their daughter after invading their Vancouver-area home. The crime occurred in April 2024, but the details of the scene were revealed last week in a sentencing report by a British Columbia judge, first reported by CBC.
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France news
fromThe Local France
1 week ago

Thieves in France steal jewellery worth up to $1.2 million

Thieves in northern France stole jewellery worth up to $1.2 million after taking a jeweller and his wife hostage; investigators opened kidnapping and crime probes.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

UK in denial over hostage-taking by foreign states, says Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

UK government has not appointed a promised special envoy and is failing to make release of arbitrarily detained British nationals a consistent diplomatic priority.
France news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago

Iran releases two French nationals imprisoned for three years

Iran released two French nationals, Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris, jailed on spying charges for over three years; they reached the French embassy awaiting return.
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