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Five-year-old snatched by ex-wife and taken to Poland!


rozumiemnic
4 Aug 2015  #1

a tale of two halves?

What do people make of this?
Wronged woman or evil child snatcher?

A desperate father has told of how he resorted to hiring a special forces soldier to help him retrieve his daughter when the girl was snatched by his ex-wife and taken to Poland.
Craig Michael, 35, said he spent months planning the operation after being forced to take drastic action when his pleas for help from the authorities fell on deaf ears.
His ex-wife, Marta Swinarska, had taken the couple's five-year-old daughter Crystal from their home in Cyprus and fled to her native Poland - later ignoring two court orders to return her.

dailymail/news/article-3184611/Father-tells-soldier-helped-recover-girl-ex-wife-snatched-took-Poland.html

jon357
4 Aug 2015  #2

He was enforcing the court order. The puzzling thing is the Polish authorities saying they "couldn't find her". Evidently none of the family must pay any tax or ZUS, use public health care or pensions or have a zameldowanie. Any of them. Perhaps they're travelling folk. That or the Polish government ignoring The Hague Convention.

Harry
4 Aug 2015  #3

What do people make of this?

Pretty much par for the course when it comes to custody cases involving a foreign parent and a Pole.

the Polish government ignoring The Hague Convention.

Yet again.

kondzior
4 Aug 2015  #4

They should send GROM to take care of this muslim terrorist/ kidnapper.

jon357
4 Aug 2015  #5

So you're suggesting that Poland invades another part of the Union out of pique because an individual exercised their rights under the law?

And why do you think he's a Muslim, a terrorist or a kidnapper?

InPolska
4 Aug 2015  #6

"Craig Michael" = a sure genuine "Muslim" name ;)

delphiandomine
4 Aug 2015  #7

Worth pointing out that the "mother" (not that she's worthy of being called that) admitted child kidnapping.

kondzior
4 Aug 2015  #8

So you're suggesting that Poland invades another part of the Union out of pique because an individual exercised their rights under the law?

For justice. Americans would not flinch. If she have been taken to same civilised country..
What fate awaits this girl in such a savage land, among muslim fundamentalists?

And why do you think he's a Muslim, a terrorist or a kidnapper?

Just look at his picture. It strikes the eye.

jon357
4 Aug 2015  #9

Yes they would. They flinch all the time. Every minute of every day.

Muslim

You do know where the family live? Where The Hague Convention covers? Or perhaps you don't. Listen, do us a favour and when you grow up, don't try to go for a career in diplomacy or international law. Or geography.

Anyway, the law is the law and Poland signed up to it; that woman had broken it - in effect she'd kidnapped the child and taken her to a foreign country, and now the law has been enforced.

delphiandomine
4 Aug 2015  #10

What fate awaits this girl in such a savage land, among muslim fundamentalists?

Yes, Cyprus, that hotbed of Islam.

Anyway, the law is the law and Poland signed up to it.

And Poland should enforce it, regardless of what some Americans think.

rozumiemnic
4 Aug 2015  #11

Just look at his picture. It strikes the eye.

from his name and looks and where he chose to live, I imagine his family is probably Greek Cypriot.

Polsyr
4 Aug 2015  #12

Greek

A la George Michael.
Something about this story doesn't make sense. Is it really possible that Polish authorities are THAT indifferent towards their obligations under the Hague convention?

delphiandomine
4 Aug 2015  #13

Sadly, yes. There's been quite a few reports over how Polish courts simply ignore their obligations under the Hague convention - even when the child's location is known. Harry knows more, but Polish family courts are a bastion of bad decisions.

Harry
4 Aug 2015  #14

Is it really possible that Polish authorities are THAT indifferent towards their obligations under the Hague convention?

Yes, as has been repeatedly demonstrated.

Polsyr
4 Aug 2015  #15

repeatedly demonstrated.

Any remedy in sight?

Ant63
10 Aug 2015  #16

The problem is there is nothing in Polish Law to enforce a return notice therefore winning a Hague case can be a hollow victory.

The reference to kidnapping is incorrect. It implies that the child was taken for ransom. Abduction is the correct term

craigmichael
2 Sep 2015  #17

Hi ,, no im not a muslim lol ,, cyprus isnt a muslim country ,, you may see all explanations here ,, youtube.com/watch?v=TgBg60vWEJU


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