A figure in conspiratorial circles, Rémy Daillet-Wiedemann had been in detention since June 2021. This 56-year-old man, suspected of being involved in the kidnapping of little Mia, in April 2021 in the Vosges, was released, learns 20 minutes from concordant sources, confirming information from the Parisian. His new lawyer, Me Dylan Slama, filed a request to this effect with the investigating judge, who responded favorably to the request on May 24. The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office appealed the decision. But yesterday, the investigating chamber finally confirmed the decision of the investigating magistrate.
“She considered that the detention was no longer justified by the requirements of the investigation and that the ARSE (house arrest with electronic monitoring) was sufficient as a security measure”, explains to 20 minutes a source familiar with the matter.
“He intends to rest and enjoy freedom”
This 56-year-old man found Wednesday evening “his wife and children”, tells us Me Slama. “He intends to rest and enjoy the freedom. In a second step, we will prepare calmly for the end of the judicial investigation and, if there is a trial, we will prepare, “continues the lawyer, stressing that his client “disputes the facts with which he is accused” by Justice. Rémy Daillet is notably suspected of having partly organized the kidnapping of the 8-year-old girl, on April 13, 2021, from Malaysia, where he had settled with his family. The operation aimed to return Mia, who had been placed with her grandmother at the end of 2020, to her mother who had lost custody of her. Quickly, four suspects claiming to be from the anti-system movement had been arrested by the gendarmes. Shortly after, little Mia and her mother were found in a squat in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
An international arrest warrant had been issued against Rémy Daillet, who had settled for several years with his family on the tourist island of Langkawi, in Malaysia. In this country located several thousand kilometers from France, he thought he was safe from legal trouble, as he had confided to 20 minutes at the time. But this former member of the Modem in Haute-Garonne, who claimed in videos his desire to overthrow power and compared himself to “General de Gaulle in 42 in London”, was finally arrested and expelled to France in June 2021. Upon arrival, he was indicted in mid-June for “complicity in the kidnapping of a 15-year-old minor committed in an organized gang” and “criminal association” and placed in pre-trial detention.
Inspiration in projects of violent actions
The Nancy public prosecutor’s office had asked, in June 2022, the Nancy investigating judges to relinquish the case in favor of the anti-terrorism unit of the Paris judicial court. The public prosecutor had indeed explained in a press release that the kidnapping of Mia was “an integral part of the violent action plan of the ultra-right group called “DW Reversal” targeting the State and its representations”.
This time, justice suspects the fifties of having encouraged the followers of his videos to carry out violent actions throughout the territory and a “coup d’etat” against the government. Judicial information was opened in May 2021, after the first arrests linked to a small group with neo-Nazi ideology, “Honor and Nation”. Rémy Daillet was indicted again a year later for criminal terrorist association. These two cases have been combined and are now being investigated by a Parisian anti-terrorism judge.