Armed attackers posing as police forced a French couple near Paris to transfer about $1 million in bitcoin during a violent home invasion amid a rising wave of crypto-linked kidnappings in France

Armed attackers posing as police forced a French couple near Paris to transfer about $1 million in bitcoin during a violent home invasion amid a rising wave of crypto-linked kidnappings in France

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