Rémy Daillet, a 59-year-old far-right conspiracy theorist and former centrist politician, is currently on trial in France for his alleged role in the 2021 abduction of an eight-year-old girl, Mia M., along with 14 other individuals, including the child’s mother, Cécile De Sèze. Daillet faces serious charges, including forming an association for the preparation of terrorist acts and complicity in the removal of a minor by an ascendant. If convicted, he could face up to thirty years in prison and a fine of 500,000 euros. According to reports, the abduction was part of a broader plan to "recover" children "wrongfully taken from their families" by authorities, which was also meant to serve as training for the group’s activities. Another account suggests the child had been placed with her grandmother by social services, and the abduction was intended to protect her from a "pedocriminal" network. The abduction occurred on April 13, 2021, when two men posing as educators from an organization called STEMO visited the grandmother’s house. The plan, detailed in a document titled "OP Lima," involved scripted dialogue and a staged visit to take the child to meet her mother. The operation was successful, and Mia was taken in a Volkswagen van. However, the grandmother, Corinne, became suspicious and triggered an abduction alert. Five days later, Mia and her mother, Lola M., were found in a squat in Switzerland. Daillet is accused of organizing, planning, and financing the operation from Malaysia. An international arrest warrant was issued for him, and he was arrested in May 2021 by Malaysian authorities and sent to France. According to one report, Daillet had claimed responsibility for the abduction in a video on his YouTube channel while maintaining his innocence. Another report states that he had inspired the operation and was the leader of an organized network aiming to overthrow the Republic and abduct children considered to have been wrongfully taken from their families by authorities. Before his involvement in conspiracy theories, Daillet had a brief political career in the centrist Modem party, where he was elected head of the Modem in Haute-Garonne. However, he was expelled in 2010 for registering a party meeting, with reports indicating he had a "fanciful" and "difficult to control" personality. After leaving politics, he launched a home-schooling program and became an anti-vaxxer, opposing 5G and the ASE, the French child protection agency. Daillet’s influence grew through his YouTube channel, where he amassed 35,600 subscribers and 1,625,628 views by 2021. His followers included Lola, the mother of Mia, who had lost custody of her child due to mental health issues and had turned to Daillet for help in retrieving her daughter. The investigation revealed that the kidnapping of Mia was preceded by several other child abduction projects under Daillet's conspiratorial vision. France's domestic intelligence agency, DGSI, had previously reported Daillet's activities as "violent conspiratorial activities" and sent a report to the national anti-terrorism prosecutor in April 2021. Daillet's trial includes charges related to planning attacks, such as blowing up a Covid vaccination center and taking down 5G antennas, as well as aiming to overthrow "the masters of the world" and seize power in France. The "recovery" of children was to serve as training for these activities. The case is being tried with 15 defendants, including former soldiers, a chemistry professor, and a musician. Daillet’s lawyer, Dylan Slama, has rejected the media image of Daillet as a conspiracy theorist, denouncing "exaggerations, fantasies that he intends to de-sacralize." He argues that Daillet is a "free man" who has used his freedom of speech and mind, and the trial will test public freedoms in France. Daillet has also claimed that the return of a child to her mother is a "civic act" and part of the "firmament of the Republic's values." However, a psychiatrist who evaluated Daillet noted a "lack of consistency" in his thinking and a disorder that may have contributed to "altering his discernment."