A coup attempt in France was thwarted

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28-10-2021, 17:52

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French media reported, today, Thursday, that the security forces thwarted a coup attempt in the country.

Le Parisien reported that an attempt to change power in France had been thwarted by the former deputy of the Democratic Movement Party, Rémy Daillet, who had been arrested on suspicion of organizing attacks on vaccination centres.

According to the results of the investigations, according to the newspaper, "it was concluded that Daillet had established a network that includes branches throughout the country, and includes current and retired officers from the police, gendarmerie and army, based on the analysis of correspondence between the participants in the plot, the investigators identified at least 36 captains, each Some of them are responsible for their area.

According to the investigation, "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 statements, and the plan was called Operation Lazur.".

Daillet began his calls for an uprising in late 2020 from Malaysia, as he was hiding from the French police on charges of kidnapping an eight-year-old girl, in April 2021.

Daillet also sent a message to some French parliamentarians, that the republic was no longer the leitmotif, "The time has come." The hour of reckoning.” .

Jean-Christophe Basson, lawyer for Remy Daillet, denied that any terrorist charges had been brought against his client, and that the former deputy demanded a peaceful and popular revolution of the existing political system in the context of exercising his freedom of expression and conscience.