French police have issued an international arrest warrant for a far-right conspiracy theorist living in Malaysia, who they allege helped organise the abduction of an eight-year-old girl in eastern France at the request of her mother, reports The Guardian.
In a case that has prompted concern about the spread of QAnon and survivalist ideas in France, police said they sought the arrest of a former local politician who has called in online videos for a “popular coup d’état”.
François Perain, the Nancy public prosecutor, said statements to police by suspects arrested in the case led him to believe Rémy Daillet-Wiedemann was “the main figure in their so-called ‘movement’, and played a role in the abduction”.
Mia Montemaggi was found safe on Sunday with her mother, Lola, 28, in a squat in a disused factory in Switzerland, five days after she was taken from her grandmother’s home in the eastern Vosges region by three men posing as child protection officers.