Family Sequestered for Cryptocurrency Theft in Brittany: Four Men Charged
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On 20 April, five members of the same family, the grandparents, their daughter and two of her children, were held in a Ploudalmezeau pavilion.
Four men were charged after the violent sequestration of an entire family tied to his Finistrian home to target a cryptocurrency pactole
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In April, a family, including two children, had been sequestered in its Finistère pavilion by men in order to extort cryptocurrency from them. Four people were charged and two were detained.
The victims of extortion had been found tied up in a pavilion in Ploudalmezeau. The operation, led by soldiers of the Rennes Research Section, resulted in the arrest of four victims of extortion.
An operation, carried out from Monday to Wednesday, mobilized 40 soldiers from the Rennes Research Section, the Finistère Group and the intervention units, the Prosecutor's Office said that judicial information had been opened in mid-June.
Four men were arrested on Monday and Tuesday, 7 and 8 September 2026, after the kidnapping of a Ploudalmezeau family (29), last April, in order to extract his cryptocurrency. Two of the suspects were placed in pre-trial detention.
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