prosecutor recounts Mia’s kidnapping

The public prosecutor of Nancy, François Perain held this Sunday afternoon an update on the investigation which made it possible to find little Mia, safe and sound, in Switzerland.

“Military operation”

The men who cunningly kidnapped the little girl acted with great method, the magistrate explained straight away: “This is an extremely well-prepared action, dubbed by their authors ‘Operation Lima’. This kidnapping was prepared as a military-type operation “.

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Lima, Pitchoune, etc.

The five men who kidnapped him are citizens “unknown to justice, met via social networks” and they “share the same community of ideas: against the State, they are mobilized against what they call dictatorship sanitary “. They were arrested in France and are being presented to an examining magistrate with a view to their indictment.

The prosecutor named them as follows: Jeannot, Pitchoune, Le Corbeau, Bruno and Basile.

How they kidnapped the girl

The kidnapping, as we know, took place “by trickery” and without violence. “Two will play the role of false educators”, describes François Perain, provided with a false summons.

Another member of the group “is ready on the phone if the grandmother requires telephone confirmation of the reality of the summons.”

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They help the mother to go to Switzerland

Three of the men “accompanied the mother and child to cross the Franco-Swiss border on foot”. Mia and her mother were then “hosted by a woman sympathetic to the movement”.

European warrant against the mother

The public prosecutor of Nancy announces that a European arrest warrant will be issued “in the coming hours” against Lola Montemaggi, Mia’s mother, so that “she may be handed over to a judge. ‘instruction “in Nancy.

Another European warrant was issued against a last man, Romeo, a Frenchman living in Switzerland, who helped the mother.

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