why the fck would anyone in france voluntarily declare their crypto, pay tax on it, and end up on a kidnap list as a thank you?

41 crypto kidnappings in france in the first 3.5 months of 2026. for context: all of 2025 = 30 cases. 2024 and 2023 almost nothing.
a tax office employee in bobigny, 32, was arrested in june 2025. investigators found targeted searches on her workstation: crypto specialists, crypto investors. their files, names, addresses, declared holdings, were sold to criminal networks for physical attacks and extortion.
she's the only publicly known case. nobody thinks she's the only one.
→ the waltio leak:
waltio is a french crypto tax-filing app. last december, shiny hunters lifted data on ~50,000 users: names, phone numbers, emails, tax residency, declared gains and balances. ~5,000 already surfaced on the dark web. 3 kidnappings allegedly tied to that list netted criminals $9.3m, $3.8m, and $4m.
a leaked exchange list is messy. a leaked tax declaration list is a pre-filtered kidnap dataset:
> confirmed crypto holder
> verified holding size
> full legal identity
> physical address
> inside the country, reachable
and now, the french government wants ids and private dms of social media users on top of all that.
if it weren't illegal i'd tell you not to declare your crypto. but it is illegal, so i'm not telling you.