It is a child's face that has occupied the headlines of newspapers and social networks.
Mia Montemaggi, 8 years old, kidnapped by several people to be "returned" to her mother, when the justice had withdrawn her custody for several worrying reasons and had entrusted the child to her maternal grandmother.
The case shed light on the role played by a figure of conspiracy, Rémy Daillet, and the influence of these theories on the people who participated in the kidnapping, presented as an operation to save an endangered child.
From theories to the passage to the act, here is what to worry about the grip of the conspiracy and the switch of ordinary people towards criminal acts.
What psychological springs come into play?
This is what Clémence will seek to understand, this week, in
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