He was supposed to stay in Belgium with his father for two weeks, but he never returned to Italy. And now the mother is asking for help. The protagonist is a six-year-old boy who until July 15 has always lived with his mother in the province of Nuoro. The woman, for four months, has been fighting an exhausting battle to hug him again. Since 28 October she has been in Belgium, hoping to be able to bring home her son, whom she has seen only once since she arrived.
"It is a devastating story that begins in July 2017 - explains her lawyer Monica Murru - when the couple separates and my client returns home with the child in a town in the Nuorese area. Then a long legal affair between the two parents begins. with a first sentence of the Belgian court which establishes shared custody for both parents with the minor's privileged residence in Italy by the mother. but he replies spades. In October 2018 another sentence establishes shared custody but moving the residence to the father ". The sentence remains a dead letter "because the man - explains the lawyer - continues not to see the child and does not provide for the maintenance".
In July 2021, the father writes to the woman explaining that he wants to execute the sentence and take the child to Belgium.
"At that point - reconstructs the lawyer - through the tutelary judge in Nuoro we reached the signing of a shared agreement and the child left for Belgium with his father for a 15-day vacation, but since then the man has refused to answer. to social services and the carabinieri ". The woman once again appeals to the tutelary judge, who transmits the documents to the Nuoro Public Prosecutor's Office and to the Italian consulate in Belgium for child abduction. "The mother will not return to Italy except with her child - announces the lawyer - She has seen him only once and the meeting was heartbreaking, with the little one who did not want to break away from his mother's embrace. The child has lost weight. at least 3 kilos and is undergoing heavy psychological stress. We have sent a report from the child neuropsychiatrist to the competent authorities in Belgium to put an end to the torture. At the same time we are collecting donations for the woman, who has left her job in Sardinia and has to support the costs of this dramatic legal battle ".
(Unioneonline / D)