Rémy Daillet: Far-right ‘coup plot’ in France enlisted army officers

The police have thwarted a secret far-right network of conspiracy theorists who plotted to storm the Élysée Palace and overthrow the government, an intelligence report has claimed.

Investigators said that army officers, police, lawyers and doctors were among a league of about 300 people enlisted by Rémy Daillet, the alleged operation’s mastermind.

Daillet, 54, a leading figure in the French version of America’s QAnon movement, was charged with 13 others last week for “planning attacks against the state and other violent action”.

Prosecutors said that their targets were institutional sites, vaccination centres and 5G masts. A report by the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI), the domestic intelligence service, said that several dozen group members were making explosives as part of a full-scale coup

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