He can now be either deported ... or extradited.
Rémy Daillet, suspected of having helped organize the kidnapping of little Mia in April, was arrested on Saturday in Malaysia where he lives.
The Malaysian authorities can now deport him to France for illegal stay in their country or extradite him if they retain the international arrest warrant of which he is the subject.
In either case, Rémy Daillet should soon be able to be heard by French investigators.
They will thus be able to clarify his role within the movement which organized the kidnapping in mid-April of Mia.
The 8-year-old girl had been kidnapped by several men while she was staying with her maternal grandmother in a village in the Vosges.
A kidnapping alert was quickly disseminated and significant police resources made it possible to find her five days later with her mother in Switzerland.
He refuted the term kidnapping
Rémy Daillet, 54, a former MoDem executive in Haute-Garonne, excluded from the centrist party in 2010, has since become a figure of the conspiracy movement. In a video posted online after Mia's kidnapping, Rémy Daillet tried to defend himself. Without mentioning Mia by name, he refuted the term kidnapping. "The big press tries to discredit us as much as possible by accusing me, for example, of instigating kidnappings," he said in this rather disjointed 5-minute video. “Our organization, free, resistant, returns children kidnapped by the State to parents, at their request. So there is absolutely no kidnapping ”.
In other older videos he defended the idea of a popular coup and said he was opposed to taxes, vaccines, masks or 5G.
As part of the Mia case, six men and the mother of the girl, close to the anti-system and conspiracy movement, were indicted and placed in pre-trial detention.
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