Overview

• On July 7, two intruders broke into a Suresnes home and beat a mother of three in front of her husband and children while searching for her crypto wallet.
• Police apprehended one suspect at the scene carrying two knives and a meat cleaver and took him into custody for questioning.
• Investigators say the detained individual admitted to being contracted online to rob the couple of their digital assets.
• The victim was treated in relative emergency and has filed a complaint, leading the Hauts-de-Seine judicial police to open a case for attempted violent robbery.
• This attack follows a series of crypto-linked kidnappings and assaults in France that authorities link to a suspected Franco-Moroccan criminal network.