Chantal Tonello, the little girl kidnapped by her mother 14 years ago from Padua, when she was just one year old, was found in Hungary. The Italian State Police in collaboration with the Hungarian one stopped the woman, recipient of a European arrest warrant and subsequently released her because she was also reported to the Hungarian judicial authority for failure to fulfill school obligations and mistreatment of a minor.
The police intervened in the city of Mezotur. Once the girl was located and brought to safety, the mother was charged by order of the Attorney General of the Republic at the Court of Appeal of Venice, for the crime of abduction and retention of a minor abroad and reported by the local judicial authority for the same crimes.
The entire affair has been directly followed, since the girl's missing person report filed by her father in January 2012, by the Flying Squad of Padua, the Service for International Police Cooperation and the Office of the Security Expert in Budapest, who have provided the Hungarian authorities with continuous investigative elements.
The mother, a Hungarian citizen, after a short holiday in Hungary, had not brought her daughter back to Italy, causing them to disappear.
(Online Union)
