Four men have been detained by French police investigating the carefully planned kidnapping of an eight-year-old girl that prosecutors believe was ordered by her mother, reports BBC News.
Mia was taken from her grandmother's home in the Vosges area of eastern France on Tuesday.
Her abduction sparked a nationwide alert but prosecutors believe she may have been taken abroad by her mother.
The suspects allege they were asked to carry out the plot over the internet.
"Three of the them showed up at Mia's grandmother's home to abduct the girl and hand her over to her mother 20 minutes later," said local prosecutor Nicolas Heitz.
While one suspect waited in the car, two approached the grandmother pretending to be child protection officers, he said. A search of the home of one of the suspects in Paris revealed a prepared script to be read to the grandmother, as well as a Citroën C15 minivan said to have been identified by witnesses.
An abduction alert, modelled on the US amber alert system for abducted children, was triggered and lifted hours later.
No violence was used in the abduction, but a separate search at the home of another suspect found materials that could be used to make explosives, authorities said.
News channel BFMTV reported the four were also being investigated by the anti-terror prosecutor for alleged terrorist conspiracy. They are reported to have discussed possible attacks on Covid vaccination centres.