Daillet case, anti-system conspiracy and child abductions
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Nancy's French prosecutor François Perain during a press conference in Nancy, eastern France on April 18, 2021. © Jean-Christophe Verhaegen / AFP
By: Sophie Malibeaux
9 mins
This week saw a new twist in the case of the kidnapping of little Mia.
An international arrest warrant has been issued against a French exiled in Malaysia, suspected of having organized everything from a distance.
On social networks, Rémy Daillet operates with his face uncovered.
His profile is that of an individual inspired by conspiracy theses in full resurgence since the start of the pandemic.
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It should be noted first of all that the investigation is underway and that Rémy Daillet at this stage is a suspect.
If we are talking about it here today, it is because one of the authors of the kidnapping, now in the hands of French justice, incriminates him as being the one who financed and organized "
Operation Lima
" , a sort of commando intervention set up to kidnap the girl.
Actor or inspirer? The fact is that on the Internet, he prides himself on being able to return to their parents children according to him “
kidnapped
” by the State, since this is how he interprets the “
social placement
” of certain children. Mia's grandmother had indeed obtained custody of her granddaughter, following a legal procedure.
The public prosecutor of Nancy points the finger at the radicalization of a group of people, including Mia's mother, sharing the same anti-state discourse, in the fight against the "
health dictatorship
".
A leading figure in this movement, the exact role of Rémy Daillet needs to be clarified.
Research in open sources on the internet would already make it possible to trace its fundraising activities through an
online kitty, to finance kidnappings
(kitty since closed by the site).
Against the state, against the school
On the conspiratorial site "
The truth without the masks
", there is a curriculum vitae of Rémy Daillet who not only proposes to return children placed by social services to their parents, but also plans to "
return France to the people
". Through various blogs, he practices coaching sessions, offering parents to remove their children from school, presented as a dangerous place in the hands of pedophiles and labs. On his anti-system website,
he pleads "
for a popular coup
"
, attacking the powers of money, vaccines, 5G, masks and containment. He ticks all the boxes of conspiracy resistant to measures to fight the pandemic.
In the writings and videos of Rémy Daillet, there is no explicit quote from
QAnon
, this movement stemming from the American ultra-right, but he shares the same obsession with “
pedosatanists
” and also refers to Donald Trump, who in the eyes of followers of
QAnon
is supposed to save America from the actions of a globalist pedophile elite.
He announces, in the same vein, an "
extraordinary event, on the verge of happening
": the overthrow of power, which he intends to lead himself in France.
He also does not openly cite little Mia and the operation to abduct her from her grandmother's home, but he defends the gesture presented as restitution to the mother, and he explains at length of video how to finance this. type of activity, thanks to funds placed offshore to evade the tax authorities.
Those who comment on his calls for mobilization against the state, however, do not hesitate to refer to the theories of QAnon and the events that marked the last US presidential election.
Internet activism and inclinations to take action
This
QAnon
phenomenon
observed under a magnifying glass by researchers at
the Graphika study center
for several years, shows an "
infodemic
" which is spreading on the net, where we see the same theories spreading in remote communities against a background of anti-state, anti-system, anti-science, anti-vaccine, but pro-gun ideology. For his part, the prosecutor of Nancy who has already carried out the indictment of five men for "
kidnapping in an organized gang of a minor under the age of fifteen and criminal association", evokes a "community of radical ideas
" .
This case is part of a phenomenon of globalization of conspiracy, exacerbated on the networks for several years and especially since the outbreak of the global health crisis, with inclinations to act, rare, but similar, from one end. to the other of the planet.
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