A German couple went into hiding in South America for around 200 days with two children from previous relationships.
She made the case public: Anne Maja Reiniger-Egler, the mother of one of the kidnapped children, at a press conference in early June.
(dpa)
In the case of child abduction in Paraguay, the two ten and eleven-year-old girls are back in Germany. This is reported by several German media. The girls flew back with their parents on Tuesday and Wednesday.
A few days ago, a court in Paraguay cleared the way for the two girls to return to Germany. The children and youth court in the capital Asuncion last Friday approved an agreement to repatriate the ten and eleven-year-old children.
According to the information, the other two parents, who emigrated with the girls, should also return to Germany in the coming week and submit to the judiciary there.
A week ago, the month-long search for the ten and eleven-year-old girls had come to an end. After negotiations with the two lawyers, Bott and Stephan Schultheiss, the German emigrant couple who were wanted for child abduction turned themselves in to the police and handed the children over to the authorities in Paraguay. “Now everything is in order. The search is over. The escape is over,” it said afterwards.
The parents represented by the lawyers and who initially stayed in Germany were involved and flew to Paraguay to hug their children again.
Couple took the girls to Paraguay in November
The father of one girl and the mother of the other girl are married to each other in their second marriage and emigrated to Paraguay with their two children in November last year without the consent of their respective ex-partners. According to the Paraguayan public prosecutor’s office, the couple had an arrest warrant issued by the international police agency Interpol.
Children are medically examined
The Paraguayan police released pictures of the refugees with officials and the lawyer last week. The newspaper “ABC Color” quoted the police commissioner Mario Vallejos as saying: “The desired goal has been achieved.” Apparently the girls are fine. “But we will still subject you to a medical examination.”
Lawyer Schultheiss told the German Press Agency a week ago that he had met the wanted couple and the girls at an undisclosed location. According to “ABC Color”, the meeting took place in the border area with Argentina.
The spouses who have fled are opposed to vaccination
The fugitive couple left a suicide note when they left in November 2021, according to the searching mother. In it, the couple wrote that there was no future for the girls in Germany, that they did not want to have them vaccinated against the corona virus. A few days ago, the fugitives published a video message. “We are now wanted worldwide, like criminals, like murderers, like criminals,” said the man in it. The woman added: “We just wanted to protect our children. We just want our kids to be okay and now you guys want to separate us.”