"Nobody likes to get a mandate like that. However, he will address the issue." These are the words of Ronen Dlayahu, lawyer of Shmuel Peleg, Eitan Biran's maternal grandfather against whom, at the request of the Pavia Public Prosecutor's Office, an international arrest warrant was issued together with his "assistant", the Israeli citizen Gabriel Alon Abutbul .
Dlayahu then explained the points of the party appeal that he will present today to the Tel Aviv Court against the first sentence: the child's habitual residence and his property. "The question now is to establish", the lawyer said, if bringing Eitan back to Italy "does not cause him a damage greater than the advantage. We have also appealed on this point. According to the defense, he would receive damage." up to now this child has not been examined by any expert ", the complaint.
Therefore, the battle of the child's family members, the only survivor of the tragedy of Mottarone, does not stop.
Schmuel Peleg, through his lawyers, has therefore already presented a reminder to the Milan Review, against the provision by which the Pavia magistrates ask that he go to prison for the kidnapping of his nephew, taken to Tel Aviv two months ago. According to the investigating judge, the grandfather would not even have had "pity" for that child already victim of an unheard-of tragedy. But the fact, however, is that that international arrest warrant can be executed with the delivery of the man to Italy, if anything, only if the 58-year-old expatriates, because yesterday from sources of the Ministry of Justice it was known that Israel does not extradite its own citizens.
With the latest move by the Pavia Public Prosecutor's Office, which was welcomed by the investigating judge Pasquale Villani the request for custody in prison for Peleg but also for his driver-assistant Gabriel Alon Abutbul, "soldier of fortune" of the well-known US contractor agency BlackWater, the case of little Eitan, 6 years old, already severely marked by life and disputed by the two family branches, has moved to the criminal field.
However, as of today the attention returns to Tel Aviv where the District Court was called to express itself on the appeal lodged by the grandfather against the sentence of judge Iris Ilotovic-Segal who, on the basis of the Hague Convention on international child abduction, he proved his aunt Aya Biran, legal guardian, right. Eitan lived with her, her husband and her two cousins until Shmuel took him away on 11 September, during one of the visits granted, first by car to Lugano and then on a private flight to Israel. Now until the second degree decision the child cannot return to Italy, since the appeal has stopped the decision in favor of his return.
The sentence is expected to be announced in the next few days, according to lawyers. "It was a very significant hearing - said Ronen Dlayahu - The judges examined the documents, weighed the points and I hope that a verdict will be issued that takes into account the interest of the minor for the years to come".
(Unioneonline / vl)
