A QAnon Gang Kidnapped an 8-Year-Old Girl and Planned More Abductions

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David Gilbert
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A French QAnon gang pretended to be child welfare officers & abducted an 8-year-old girl. The gang was planning other child kidnappings.

The incident highlights the "transnational violent extremist dimension of the QAnon movement,” @_MAArgentino says.

A QAnon Gang Kidnapped an 8-Year-Old Girl and Planned More Abductions
QAnon survivalists in France posed as child welfare officials and abducted the child from her grandmother’s house.
vice.com
6:10 AM · Apr 19, 2021

https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgz3g/a-qanon-gang-kidnapped-an-8-year-old-girl-and-planned-more-abductions

When three men turned up in the village of Poulières near France’s border with Switzerland last Tuesday, there was no reason to doubt they were who they said they were: child welfare officials.

Mia, the 8-year-old girl they were there to see, had been taken from her mother in January and placed in the care of her maternal grandmother, who assumed the men who knocked on her door were simply checking up on the child’s well-being. They even produced convincing identity documents to prove who they were.

But they weren’t child welfare officials. They were kidnappers who were part of an online group of QAnon survivalists and were planning other child abductions and discussing blowing up vaccination clinics.

The men have told prosecutors that they were contacted online by the child’s mother, Lola Montemaggi, who solicited them to abduct Mia. The plot, described by French prosecutors as a “military operation” run by “extremely well-prepared” kidnappers, worked as planned, and 20 minutes after kidnapping Mia, the men handed the child over to Montemaggi, who proceeded to walk across the border into Switzerland with her daughter.

The abduction triggered a nationwide alert similar to an Amber alert in the U.S.

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[uponit7771]

1. WOW !! Batshit ass crazy people who need to be addressed nationally

[subterranean]

4. Internationally, in this case.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. It's almost like all of the child molesters/abusers/perverts gravitated to QAnon

to blame liberals/democrats and cover their active participation in these despicable acts.

[OhZone]

3. WTH? The ones claiming to be the protectors of the children -

are abducting them????

[BGBD]

5. It has happened in the US too

There have been several cases where parents who had lost custody of their kids were using Qanon networks to attempt to abduct them from state care.