The abduction of 6-year-old Rainer[/B] in Kifissia[/B] is turning into a thriller with the authorities trying to unravel the tangle of the case to get to those who took the young child from his mother's house.
This is a very strange case, as the two parents of the child, who are divorced had previously been of concern to the authorities.
At a time when the little child is missing after the abduction and anxiety over his fate is running high, the two parents are blaming each other.
The mother, via Live News, is appealing to anyone who knows anything to contact the authorities.
"All I want is for my child to be found. I appeal to anyone who knows anything to contact the authorities," she told MEGA through her lawyer.
It all happened on Tuesday afternoon in a quiet neighborhood of Kifissia. The clock shows 20.40 and 6-year-old Rainer is playing carefree in the yard of the house, waiting for his mother to return.
"The child was in the yard, playing. It was still early. He heard the child's noise at the door. She thought it was his mother; she opened the door and the man who was there grabbed him."
The boy's grandmother, frightened, went out into the yard to see what had happened, but little Rainer had already disappeared.
The father of 6-year-old Rainer, whose whereabouts are being sought by the Greek authorities, is Norwegian. For the EL.AS. is considered a key person in the case, without ruling out the possibility that he is the one who kidnapped the child.
"The dad is Norwegian, a permanent resident of Norway. We have since yesterday sent a letter to both him and his lawyers, but we have not received the slightest hint," says the mother's lawyer.
Marathon court battle
The father, Ricky Pederson, has been in Greece since last April, when a marathon court battle with his ex-wife over custody of the child began.
"It is a two-year-old dispute, which has been decided in the first and second instance in the Greek civil courts, which have ruled both at first instance and on appeal that it is in the best interest of the child to remain in Greece with his mother," noted the lawyer of the 6-year-old's mother, Christos Ikonomakis.
Last September, speaking to a Norwegian media outlet, the 6-year-old's father claimed that his son was abducted in Greece by his mother and that he would remain in the country until she got him back.
"In fact, it would be almost impossible to lose this case. The only problem is that I am Norwegian and not Greek. And I am not a mother."
What the father's lawyer says
"I have had no contact with my client since the court hearings on the child's abduction case from Norway," said Maria Adamopoulou, lawyer for the Norwegian father of 6-year-old Rainer.
According to his lawyer, "I did handle the previous court cases related to the kidnapping of the child. It is a child abduction case under the Hague Convention."
She noted that she has not spoken to the boy's father for two months, and the case is pending before the Supreme Court, which is expected to happen in a year or two.
"The first decisions that have come out," according to the lawyer for the 6-year-old's father, "the trial court and the court of appeal, say that the mother is illegally keeping the child in Greece."
Moreover, as Ms Adamopoulou said, "it is true that the mother has committed kidnapping, but the court does not order the return of the child to Norway, because his life there would be unbearable. There is a Hague Convention, which is about child abduction. According to it, if there is an abduction, the return of the child is ordered unless the court considers that the return of the child to the place from which he was abducted would make his life unbearable."
He added that "the court considered that these conditions are met, which allow the Greek court not to order the immediate return of the child. In the appeal, which the father has filed with the Supreme Court, he says that the Court of Appeal misapplied the Hague Convention."
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