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Key Takeaways The national news outlet La Voix du Nord reports that four armed men stole €40,000 in crypto during a two-hour home invasion in Vendin-le-Vieil. France now accounts for roughly 80% of documented physical crypto attacks in Europe. The French Anti-Cybercrime Office is tracing the €40,000 to find how the crew picked targets. La Voix du Nord, the daily newspaper for northern France, disclosed that a group of four men dressed in black forced their way through the front door of a family home at 4 a.m., carrying at least a knife and an iron bar. Le Parisien confirmed the report and noted that the kidnappers bound the couple and their two young children with black tape, separating the father while placing the mother and kids under guard. For the next two hours, the attackers reportedly punched and threatened the father until he handed over his account codes and login details to transfer roughly €40,000 in cryptocurrency. Then they vanished. By the time firefighters found the family in shock around 7 a.m., the digital money was gone. The terrifying part is not just that this happened. The problem is that it keeps happening, and almost entirely in one country. A Calculated Midnight Strike The attack in the small town of Vendin-le-Vieil arrived completely out of the blue. The targets were a 40-year-old information technology (IT) specialist who works in cryptocurrency, his 41-year-old partner, and their two children, aged 12 and eight. Once inside, the four hooded men executed a clearly planned operation. They taped the family, isolated the father, and demanded access to his digital wealth. The violence was explicit. Reports say the 12-year-old girl was struck in the head with car keys to wake her up, and the father was beaten until he initiated the transfer. The Remote…