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U.S. Fugitive Michael Wiseman Arrested in France and Jailed on Child-Rape Charges

Email evidence uncovered by U.S. investigators prompted French charges leading to pretrial detention.

Overview

  • French authorities arrested Wiseman on 1 November in Kilstett, Bas-Rhin, where he had lived for about a year under the alias Robert Danilewski using a Polish passport.
  • He has been placed under formal investigation and remand for rape and sexual assault of a minor, with investigators also examining possible abuse of a second adopted child.
  • U.S. detectives accessed his email and found recent child sexual abuse material that depicts him, prompting French prosecutors to open a case.
  • The United States has requested his extradition, which remains pending as the French judicial inquiry in Strasbourg proceeds.
  • Wiseman previously cut an electronic monitor and fled after a 2008 arrest, was captured in Spain and extradited in 2009, pleaded guilty and was sentenced in 2012, then absconded again before relocating through Vietnam and Poland to France.