Epic with a certain panache, or banal and lamentable kidnapping of a child?
Professional team, or nickel-plated feet in need of sensations?
We can bet that everyone will have an opinion on the news item that has shaken France for a few days.
This Sunday, April 18, the public prosecutor of Nancy François Perain delivered an extensive account of the kidnapping of little Mia, prepared and carried out in secret by six men, five of whom are now in police custody.
The 8-year-old child was found today in good health, in a squat in Switzerland, and her mother arrested on the spot.
In France, five people were taken into custody in this incredible case.
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It all started on social networks, where Lola Montemaggi met a certain "
Bouga
", aged 42, and to whom she explained the problem she encountered with her daughter Mia, 8, placed by social services with her grandfather. mother. The little girl's mother developed anti-system convictions over several months, convinced of the illegitimacy of the French administration's foray into her family problems. More broadly, it is life in society that the young woman rejects. As the Epinal prosecutor's office had indicated in the middle of the week, she had not been present for her judicial summons since December, and had announced that she intended to go live "
under the radars of the company.
". Opinions shared by Bouga, who then decides to set up a team to help Lola and return her child to her.
Five other people then enter the game, designated by the prosecutor Perain by the pseudonyms they used: "
Jeannot
", born in 1960, without profession, "
Pitchoune
", born in 1963 and intermittent in the show, "
the Raven
", born in 1997 and who receives a disabled adult allowance, and finally “
Bruno
”, born in 1961 and technical director. Another individual involved in the kidnapping and known as "
Basil
" is also mentioned, without further personal details. According to the prosecution, all are "
citizens who have never been talked about, rather well integrated socially
" and unknown to justice. They share a '
community of ideas against the state
"In general and oppose, for example, the"
health dictatorship
"put in place since the arrival of the Covid-19. As such, the police have found false medical certificates at Pitchoune to avoid any possible compulsory vaccination campaign. Regarding social policies, they consider that child protection unfairly takes away their offspring from parents.
Asked about possible “
extreme right
”
convictions
, François Perain said he thought “
it's much more complicated
”: “
I don't think they are survivalists or people from the extreme right, c he is a community of ideas with points in common, on hard ideas, such as anti-state discourse.
Beyond that, it would be necessary to engage in interpretations, which I will not do
, ”he explained.
Wild camping nights
If the prosecutor underlines that at this time of the facts, "
their convictions are not reprehensible
", they enter the field of the penal law when they organize the operation of kidnapping of the little Mia in order to reunite her with her. mother. The project was then baptized "
Operation Lima
", and by the procurator's own admission, conceived as a "
military
" operation. The scenario is established: it is a question of forming a team which will present itself to the grandmother of Mia by posing as civil servants of the social services, in order to obtain to take the child under the pretext of a summons . The second phase consists of reuniting Mia and her mother, in order to bring them to Switzerland.
A false summons on the model of the letterhead of the administration is then fabricated, and a detailed script of the intervention at the grandmother's home is written. A budget of 3000 euros is collected to cover the costs, the financial aspect not having been detailed by the prosecutor at this stage. Bouga, who will not participate physically, notably buys walkie-talkies, cell phones, and other members get bivouac equipment.
The operation is launched on Sunday April 11. On board two vans, a Volkswagen Transporter and a Citroën C15, Jeannot, Pitchoune and the Corbeau, who all live in Île-de-France, set off for the Vosges. On the way, they pick up Basil, and spend the first night together in a wild camping in a Vosges forest. They are joined by Bruno, aboard his official Mercedes station wagon. They spend a second night there and take the opportunity to make up the Volkswagen Transporter with Renault brand badges. On April 13, they meet Lola in a car park near Poulières (Vosges), then take action. With the make-up van, three of the participants show up at the grandmother's home, playing the role of false educators who will have to persuade her to give them the child in order toan interview - legal - with his mother.
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Jeannot, remained in the parking lot, is ready to answer the phone and pose as a secretary of youth protection, if necessary.
In front of the numerous proofs and the speeches of the kidnappers, Mia is recovered without difficulty.
She is then immediately taken to the parking lot where Jeannot and his mother are.
The team leaves for Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, with the exception of Jeannot, whose mission ends there, who removes make-up from his Volkswagen Transporter and leaves for the Paris region.
The others will then assist the mother so that she can cross the Franco-Swiss border.
Bruno also leaves the group;
the three remaining men accompany Lola and Mia on foot to Switzerland.
On site, a new individual nicknamed "
Romeo
", born in 1980, French living in Switzerland, takes the mother and child aboard his Porsche Cayenne, and drops them off at Estavayé-le-Lac, where they spend the first night. fugitive to the hotel. A last accomplice then enters the adventure: a woman, described as a “
sympathizer
”, accommodates them the next day, April 14, in Neufchâtel, which they joined by taxi. On the third day of their run, they are finally brought to the Sainte-Croix squat, still in the canton of Vaud. If Romeo was arrested Saturday by the Swiss authorities, the landlady is still free, even if her arrest is currently "
possible
" according to prosecutor Perain.
The kidnappers, if they tried to show professionalism, will not therefore have succeeded in deceiving the French and Swiss investigators. At the cost of "
painstaking work
", they were able to quickly go up the chain and make the arrests, until the happy outcome of this Sunday. Concerning the accomplices arrested in France, the prosecutor detailed that a judicial investigation is opened against them for "
kidnapping in an organized gang of minors under 15 years old
», And that their detention has been requested. The next work of the investigation, as also underlined by the colonels of the gendarmerie present at the press conference, now concerns the functioning of the movement, the motivations of each, and any other complicity, in particular financial.
