Eitan Biran, grandfather’s appeal rejected: the child will return to his paternal aunt Aya in Italy. But the case can go to the Supreme Court
The Tel Aviv District Court dismissed the appeal presented by the lawyers of Shmuel Peleg, Eitan’s maternal grandfather, against the first instance ruling which established that the child, the only survivor of the Mottarone tragedy, he must return to Italy to his aunt Aya Biran.
The judges decided that the six-year-old must return to Italy to his aunt within 15 days. However, the child will not return for now because the grandfather, who has been sentenced to pay the legal fees, has a week to file a possible appeal with the Supreme Court.
Therefore, the same situation as that created following the first instance sentence is repeated. The verdict of the district court also reads that Peleg brought Eitan to Israel illegally, precisely “in violation of the custody rights granted to her aunt.” In the first instance sentence, the Isrelian judges wrote that Italy is Eitan’s “place of normal residence”.
This week the Italian justice issued the international arrest warrant for grandfather Peleg, who had flown Eitan to Israel on a private jet last September. In October, an Israeli court ruled that the child should return to Italy, to his paternal uncles, as the place of his normal residence.
READ ALSO
#Eitan #Biran #grandfathers #appeal #rejected #child #return #Italy