Remi Daillet; Far-Right Politician Who Planned to Take Over the Elysee and Overthrow the Regime in France

On October 22, 2021, the French authorities brought charges of terrorist conspiracy and planning a coup and committing acts of violence targeting the French state for the far-right, Remi Daillet.

According to French media reports, Remi Daillet had recruited soldiers in an attempt to seize the presidential palace in Paris, while Daillet's lawyer denied the charges, describing his client as a political prisoner.

Daillet was a leader in the Center Union, but later became a far-right activist and an influential figure in conspiracy theorist circles in France.

 

‘Operation Azure’

On October 27, the French newspaper Le Parisien revealed a plot that was being prepared to seize power in France and storm the Elysee Palace -the headquarters of the French presidency in Paris- through a coup operation called “Operation Azure” and with the support of the French people and the military establishment.

The French politician, Remi Daillet, is considered the “mastermind” of this coup project, the French authorities have indicted Daillet of criminal and terrorist association, along with 14 others, all of whom are from the far-right.

According to the newspaper, the idea of Operation Azure was born in Daillet's head at the end of last year, after the man gained fame on YouTube during the Corona epidemic crisis, especially in conjunction with his calls for the overthrow of power by the people.

The newspaper pointed out that the results of the investigations showed that Daillet took over the creation of a network that included about 300 members, they are scattered all over France and excited to be involved in the process.

They were divided into three teams: the first was charged with demonstrating and the second was with guarding, while the third was tasked with carrying out armed attacks.

Daillet's supporters planned to use police shields and explosives to seize the Elysee Palace, the buildings of the Chamber of Deputies, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of the Armed Forces, and some television channels or radio stations; In order to broadcast their data, according to the newspaper.

According to the information, Daillet’s network consists of two branches, the first is a civilian whose mission is to kidnap adopted children. The second is a soldier with real weapons and a recruitment plan, headed by two soldiers from the French army, and his mission is to recruit new members in order to overthrow the power.

According to the French channel LCA, one of the reasons that prompted Remi Daillet to plan the coup was the imposition of compulsory vaccination.

“The process began with a series of threatening letters that nonetheless ended up in the trash of many representatives and senators,” the channel added.

However, Remi expressed his intention to carry out the coup earlier in April, when Daillet said that “a popular coup is inevitable in the face of a government that carries out genocide against the people by imposing a vaccine [against COVID] that kills people.”

It is noteworthy that a large number of those involved in the coup are from civil circles opposed to anti-corona-virus vaccines, individuals who believe in conspiracy theories, activists of the Neo-Nazi movement in eastern France, in addition to activists within the protest movement yellow vests.

In turn, lawyer Jean-Christophe Basson Larbee denied to the French newspaper the existence of any plan by Daillet to carry out a coup; Rather, it calls, within the freedom of opinion, to get rid of the ruling regime by peaceful means.

 

Far Right

Remi Daillet Wiedemann, born in France in 1967, is the son of French politician Jean-Marie Daillet.

Since 2000, Daillet has been a local politician in southwestern France, running for the centrist Movement Democratic Party (MoDem).

Daillet participated in a strike in 2009 to protest the relocation of Molex, which had abandoned two French employees.

In 2010, he was expelled from the party and later joined the far-right.

In the same year, he decided to move to live with his wife and children in Malaysia.

As he began to be active on social media, especially YouTube, he promoted far-right views and conspiracy theories.

Daillet, who appears to be a psychopath who babbles about conspiracy theories, has gained wide popularity on social media among the believers in those views and sympathizers with the far-right in France.

So that Daillet will start work with relative seriousness and professionalism during the quarantine period due to the spread of the Corona epidemic during the year 2020, he derived the ideas of his coup plot from the fusion of the ideas of the extreme right in Europe and America.

In videos he posted last year, he said: “I have decided to take power in France in order to correct the course of this country, and to give you your freedom.”

Currently, Daillet is considered one of the faces of the far-right in France and conspiracy theorists, the Neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim and activists often use fake names on social networks and YouTube. He is obsessed and attached and has been under surveillance for a long time for several reasons.

On October 19, Daillet, who has been imprisoned for months on charges of planning the kidnapping of a girl, was placed in pretrial detention on charges of plotting coup operations and other acts of violence.

In the same context, the authorities refer in a number of other investigations to Daillet's links to other movements, including the Neo-Nazis.

It is noteworthy that Daillet was accused of kidnapping an 8-year-old girl at the request of her mother in eastern France last April; But she was found unharmed with her mother in Switzerland 5 days after she was taken from her grandmother's house.

The French authorities then issued an international warrant against him while he and his family were staying in Malaysia, on the grounds of “Operation Azure and accusing him of conspiracy and terrorism.”

Accordingly, the Malaysian authorities deported him on the pretext that his visa had expired. French police arrested him, Daillet, upon his return to the country last June, according to media reports.

 

Political Crisis

The revelation of Daillet's coup plot coincides with the approaching of a hot election season in France, as the voices of the far-right resound in the French media, whereas the majority of electoral rhetoric tend to touch on the concerns of the far-right, which is contested by the voices of the traditional right, and the party of Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally.

As well as the expected candidacy of the controversial media face, anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim, Eric Zemmour.

The newspaper Le Parisien, which downplayed the scale of the Daillet scheme, especially by comparing it to the “Islamist attacks in France,” but the escalation of far-right rhetoric in this country is not auspicious amid a political crisis that reflects the state of a nation in a state of anxiety.

However, the far-right-wing trend in France did not hide its open hostility to Muslims at any time, deriving its popular momentum from inciting hatred and racism on the French street.

Many believe that Macron's anti-Muslim positions in France are nothing but flirtation with the far-right and an attempt to win their support and thus their votes in the upcoming presidential elections, especially in light of the decline in popularity over the past years.

It is clear that the party benefiting from all these events is the far-right in France in particular and Europe in general, it exploits any event for incitement and even convinces opponents of its policies of what it deems right, especially in dealing with Muslims and immigrants and the consolidation of Islamophobia in European societies