French child kidnap plot shows global sway of QAnon style

PARIS — The old music box factory had been abandoned for years on the outskirts of the Swiss mountain town. Lola Montemaggi had lost custody of her daughter, Mia, to her own mother months earlier because French government child protective services feared the young woman was unstable. “If someone is trying to get back their child and says they’re with this cabal, there’s now a support network where before QAnon it would not have existed,” said Mia Bloom, who documented abductions for her book on QAnon. The former politician, in self-imposed exile in Malaysia, was finding new audiences for his previously obscure calls to overthrow France’s government, resist the “medical dictatorship” of coronavirus restrictions and protect children from government-linked pedophiles. Five men, ages 23 to 60, came together in the plot they dubbed “Operation Lima” – an anagram of Lola and Mia’s names.