Nicknamed “Stan” or the “White Zorro” by his followers on the Internet, Christian Maillaud, a former gendarme, member of the conspiracy sphere, was arrested on Friday in Sorbiers (Loire), near Saint-Etienne.

He “was arrested without resistance at 6 am by the Clermont-Ferrand research section, supported by the Loire gendarmes in whom he was placed in police custody in connection with the execution of a warrant. stop ”, specifies the public prosecutor of Cusset, Eric Neveu.

Fresh out of jail

This former parachutist and former gendarme had been wanted since November, in particular for calling for the disobedience of the military.

He had just come out of prison after a conviction in a case of attempted abduction of children allegedly victims of pedophilia, said the same source.

At the end of a preliminary investigation, a judicial investigation was opened last year against him by an examining magistrate of the Allier for "criminal association, violation of the legislation on weapons, forgery and use of false, acts of intimidation on elected officials and persons holding public authority and call for disobedience by the military ”.

Presented as "one of the last conspiratorial leaders sought by justice from the movement of the National Transitional Council of France, chaired by Eric Fiorile", another figure of the movement, Christian Maillaud is accused of having participated in a call for an uprising against the government.

At the initiative of the "Chocolate Revolution"

Denouncing “impostors and traitors to the Nation”, and “pedo-criminal and satanic networks”, he is notably accused of having sent letters inviting elected officials, soldiers or magistrates to join the “National Transitional Council” based in the Allier, under penalty of “going before a military-popular tribunal”, a judicial source indicates.

At the head of a small group of activists adhering to various conspiracy theories and in charge of the police of the “National Transitional Council”, the 50-year-old was notably at the initiative of the “Chocolate Revolution”, which planned to '' enlist the military and police after offering them boxes of chocolates.

Nicknamed “Stan” or the “White Zorro” by his followers on the Internet, Christian Maillaud takes up in videos the theories of the Qanon conspiracy movement, born in the United States and which is gaining ground in France.

In 2018, then on the run with his German partner, he was sentenced by the court of Saintes (Charente-Maritime) to five years in prison for helping a woman who planned to take her children from their father, whom she accused of pedophilia.

Arrested in Venezuela at the end of 2019, he was retried for these facts in January 2020 and had been sentenced to 4 years, after having already been sentenced in 2009 for having removed a child he claimed to be in danger.

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