Story By: Joseph Golder, Sub-Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News
Christian “Stan” Millaud, a self-proclaimed “satanic paedophile ring hunter” who has been on the run from French authorities for roughly a decade, is being retried in France today.
The former police officer, who is married to German conspiracy theorist Janett Seemann, had first been tried in absentia after having attempted to kidnap three children in the south of the country before fleeing to South America in 2012.
He claims there is a vast “satanic paedophile network” protected by the elite and had made it his mission to take action.
He even founded various organisations that were funded by his various followers, including the ‘Organisation clandestine civique universelle de lutte contre le terrorisme d’Etat’ (‘Occulte’; the ‘Underground civic universal organisation for the fight against state terrorism’ in English) and the ‘Ralliement des resistants pour la revolution’ (RRR; the ‘Resistance rally for the revolution’ in English).
French media have described him as a paranoid conspiracy theorist.
After his first trial in the French city of Saintes in 2018, where he was condemned in absentia to five years in prison, he had commented in a video: “This really makes me laugh, this verdict does not mean anything!”
Millaud, 52, was extradited from Venezuela to France at the end of last year in December after having been detained there in the summer of 2019 after Interpol issued an international warrant for his arrest.
Jailed in the prison of Saintes, he had asked to be retried as the law allows it. His followers, who are also reportedly protesting on the steps of the Saintes court, are calling for the release of this “hero wrongfully imprisoned.”
In 2012, Millaud, who has been presented as “a manipulator”, had tried with his German partner Janett Seemann, whose exact age is unclear, and several accomplices to kidnap the three children of Johann Calluaud in Montendre, in the south of the Charente-Maritime department in south-western France.
Calluaud told local media at the time: “They had the exact plan of my apartment, our timetable and had even placed GPS beacons under my vehicle.”
Divorced since 2009, it was his ex-wife Sandrine Gachadoat who, after accusing him of paedophilia, had called on the services of former police officer Christian Maillaud.
Sandrine Gachadoat had claimed that Calluaud had subjected their three children to sexual abuse.
The police investigation completely rejected this claim, finding no evidence of any abuse.
The former cop, who is also an ex-soldier, had in 2004 also tried to kidnap two girls in Madagascar, an event described by Le Parisien as “a fiasco”. Then he struck again in the French city of Perpignan, a city in Pyrenees-Orientales department in south-western France in 2009, and this time he received a year in prison for the kidnapping of little Vincent.
Calluaud has been quoted in Le Parisien as saying: “What matters to me is to show that they are completely crazy. My daughter has reacted to this kidnapping attempt very badly… I have not become paranoid, but I am much more on my guard than an ordinary parent.”
Alain Chauvet is another of Maillaud’s victims. He has been looking for his daughter Camille since 26th December 2010. She was five years old. According to Le Parisien, after her kidnapping, he only saw his daughter again once, in a video posted online by the former police officer.
Chauvet said: “I have moved heaven and earth. The wait is very difficult to live with.”
He added: “After prison, Stan Maillaud will start again.”
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