The 6-year-old boy is with his aunt Aya Biran Nirko, her husband Or and their little cousins
FROM THE ENROLLMENT TO ORIO AL SERIO (BERGAMO). The disputed child has returned home. At 22.05 this evening, Eitan Biran landed in Bergamo with Ryanair flight FR2006 which took off from Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv. He traveled alongside his uncles he was entrusted to, Aya and Nirko Biran. She watched cartoons with her cousins. They made him think it was the end of a vacation. But it was the result of a legal battle that lasted nearly three months.
“Eitan goes back to the house where he grew up since he was one month old and where his paternal grandparents can’t wait to hug him, he goes back to his beloved cat Oliver,” said the Itai Ha-Or family spokesman. It is the end of the kidnapping organized by the maternal grandfather Shmuel Peleg, and at the same time it is the new beginning of the painful life of a 6-year-old child. Eitan Biran is the only survivor of the Mottarone cable car disaster, in that crash last May 23 he lost his parents and brother. Now he has rejoined the family to which he was entrusted.
Aunt Aya Biran said a few words through her lawyers: «This return is the right conclusion of a very delicate affair. Now we ask everyone, please, that the media hype may cease. Eitan needs serenity and tranquility ». Just to avoid microphones and cameras in the airport, two cars with some agents of the Pavia mobile team on board escorted the child and his uncles from the landing strip. And then, from Bergamo to home. They have to do ten days of quarantine. The house was prepared by the maternal grandparents with new food and toys, the whole perimeter of the garden was covered with a green cloth. Nobody has to scare the disputed child anymore.
We now know almost everything about the kidnapping of Eitan Biran. His maternal grandfather, Shmuel Peleg, 63, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Israeli army, had been thinking about it since the beginning of the summer. Since he had hired Gabriel Alon Abutbul, also a former soldier who had worked with the contractor agency “Black Water”. A private soldier. A mercenary. One that many had mistaken for a secret service agent. It was he who appeared at the hearings in Italy. Also he who studied the logistics of what would become the kidnapping. According to the prosecutor of Pavia, the decision to take action perhaps had been taken on May 24, when a judge had entrusted Eitan to his aunt Aya Biran. Certainly the plan is triggered on 11 September. Grandfather must see Eitan on Saturday for an agreed visit. He tells the child that he will take him to buy some toys in Pavia. Eitan leaves the house holding on to a walker and sets off with his grandfather, while his accomplice waits on the parallel street in a rented Volkswagen. At lunchtime they cross the Italian border in Chiasso. For an incredible mistake that has not been clarified, Eitan Biran’s ban on expatriation was not included in the Shenghen database. At three in the afternoon, a Cessna 680 from the German company “Aronwest” is ready on the runway of Lugano airport, rented for 42 thousand euros. Three of them board. They will land in Tel Aviv: the grandfather and the child get off. Because the flight of contractor Gabriel Alon Abutbul continues to Cyprus, where he was arrested and released on bail in recent days.
It took nearly three months for Israeli justice to recognize the gravity of what had happened with exact words: “International child abduction”. An international arrest warrant now hangs on grandfather Shmuel Peleg and his accomplice. The procedure for extradition to Israel can last up to a year, the last word will be up to the Minister of Justice Gideon Sa’ar. Meanwhile, Eitan Biran, after 83 days, is home. And that the villa in Pavia, in the hamlet of Travacò Siccomario, is his address, as is also stated in a sentence by the Supreme Court of Tel Aviv. His home is in Italy. Where the parents had chosen to live. Where now a green tarpaulin protects the view of a small garden and a cat named Oliver purrs welcome back.
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