Attackers target a French crypto worker’s parents in second Landes attack since August

On Thursday at about 3 a.m., three masked men broke into a couple’s home in Mont-de-Marsan, tied up the pair in their 60s with tape and zip ties, demanded cryptocurrency, and struck the 63-year-old husband on the head with an adjustable wrench before fleeing with a laptop and phone. Police recovered the tools, but the attackers remain at large. Investigators believe the couple’s son, who works in the crypto sector and lives elsewhere, was the intended target; he has been placed under police protection. It was the second such attack in the Landes region since August, when a couple in Rion-des-Landes were kidnapped and their captors sought access to bitcoin; two suspects were arrested.