He never hid it. In the precepts of his “
counter-revolution
”, Rémy Daillet, a former member of the MoDem who became a figure in the conspiracy movement, launched an explicit call to “
arrest and dismiss the president.
"It is therefore not a great surprise if the guru, already imprisoned for the kidnapping of little Mia, was indicted last Friday for having considered"
plans for coups and other violent actions
". Behind the name "Operation Azur", he would have built an attack scenario directly targeting the Elysee Palace, reports
Le Parisien
. What confirms the concerns of the intelligence services on this bellicose fringe of the conspiracy sphere.
5G antennas in Parliament
The beginnings of the project seem to have been imagined at the end of 2020, when Rémy Daillet was expatriated with his family in Malaysia. At the time, the former centrist elected official was gaining popularity thanks to videos on YouTube - now accessible only in private -, where he directly threatened the French authorities: "
You want to gag us, the people of France, but it is are we who are going to chase you.
As the country undergoes new confinement, his speech seduces different sensibilities, former yellow vests, police officials or far-right activists. Among them, dozens of supporters are determined to take action, to attack Masonic lodges, 5G antennas or even vaccination centers.
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In the shadows, germinates the idea of a massive demonstration that would win all the centers of power: Parliament, strategic ministries, the headquarters of a major media and of course, the Elysee.
"
Everyone [would be] overwhelmed and that precedes the overthrow of government and state structures"
, explains to investigators one of the accused, in comments reported by
Le Parisien
.
In May, a judicial investigation is opened, after the first arrests linked to the small group "Honor and nation".
Then followed two rounds of the net on October 8 and 22, allowing a total of the arrest and indictment of 14 people for "
terrorist association with a view to preparing for the crime of personal injury."
Among them are two soldiers, suspected of having recruited strong elements for the day of the capture of the Palace.
"A shadow army"
Nearly 300 people could have gravitated around this nebulous project. But it is difficult to determine to what extent these maneuvers had left the sphere of the imaginary to enter that of the real. Few material elements have leaked from the investigation. "
This Azur operation, with a shadow army that would invade Paris, is based on fantasies and shortcuts"
, supports the
Figaro
lawyer Rémy Daillet, Me Jean-Christophe Basson-Larbi. If some of the accused, who “
claim to be part of him and subscribe to his ideas”,
have planned violent actions, the conspiratorial leader is in no way responsible. More than a man of action, his client is "
an ideologue in favor of a pacifist overthrow.
“, Abounds the penalist.
A message of threats signed by the guru and sent in April to parliamentarians nonetheless undermines the image of the irenic thinker: "
We make lists of criminals, (...) as any judicial system must do, in waiting to have the right to arrest and try.
There will be masterful punishments.
Death sentences perhaps, the people will decide,
”he wrote in this email that
Le Figaro
was able to consult.
