Christian, alias “Stan” Maillaud, a 53-year-old former gendarme and member of the conspiracy sphere, was indicted Sunday, August 15 in Cusset, in Allier, we learned from a judicial source.
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Wanted since December, he had been arrested Friday morning in Sorbiers, in the Loire, by the research section of Clermont-Ferrand, supported by the gendarmes of the Loire, as part of the execution of an arrest warrant.
"Incitement of soldiers to disobedience"
Transferred to the Moulins-Yzeure penitentiary center pending the debate with the judge of freedoms and detention, Christian Maillaud was indicted for "criminal association and incitement of soldiers to disobedience", indicated to the AFP the public prosecutor of Cusset, Eric Neveu. “
Christian Maillaud recognizes the facts with which he is accused. He claims his membership in the National Transitional Council (CNT) and the desire to set up a new system of government. He considers himself invested with a mission to restore justice,
”adds the public prosecutor.
The head of the association for "the
defense of children against all forms of violence
", where the fifty-year-old was staying in the Loire, as well as his German wife, were for their part heard by the gendarmes as witnesses, without being pursued, says the same source.
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This former parachutist and former gendarme had been wanted since last December.
He had been released the previous month from prison after a conviction in a case of attempted abduction of children allegedly victims of pedophilia.
Presented as one of the last conspiratorial leaders sought by justice from the movement of the National Transitional Council of France, chaired by Eric-Régis Fiorile, another figure of the movement, Christian Maillaud is accused of having participated in a call for an uprising against the government. Denouncing “
impostors and traitors to the nation
” and “
pedophile and satanic networks
”, he is notably accused of having sent letters inviting elected officials, soldiers or magistrates to join the CNT, based in the Allier, under penalty of “
to go before a military-popular tribunal
, ”says a judicial source. He is the 4th group manager, suspected of conspiracy, to have been arrested since the end of 2020.
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