An update on the Lithuanian case. Here a quick translation from Russian from the following article:
http://www.regnum.ru/news/polit/1904564.htmlHow to fight child kidnapping in Norway: They took the child away? File an international missing person report.
Member of European Parliament from Lithuania Valentinas Mazuronis appealed to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Lithuania with a request to find in Norway a citizen of Lithuania, Gabrielyusa Bumbulisa, whom social services of Norway took away from the mother and deprived of her parental rights, a REGNUM correspondent reports today, March 12. To do this, the MP proposes to launch international search of the child.
"I wrote to the Minister of the Interior Skvernyalisu with a request to find a minor citizen of our country, because neither his family nor the Lithuanian Embassy in Norway, nor Lithuanian institutions responsible for protecting the rights of children, have any information about him or his current place of residence or protection of his rights. I think the establishment of Lithuania should take care of its citizens and do everything so that the child is found, "- said Mazuronis.
It is stated in the appeal of the MEP to the Interior Minister that the Norwegian institutions do not provide Lithuanian institutions for the protection of children's rights and the embassy with information on the whereabouts of a citizen of Lithuania, Bumbulisa, and do not allow the representatives of these institutions and close relatives of Bumbulisa to meet, communicate, or make sure that his rights, interests and safety are observed.
The appeal emphasizes that neither the courts of Lithuania, or Norway deprived the mother Bumbulisa Leshchinskene of maternal rights. She was deprived of these rights by the decision of the county commission from Møre and Romsdal , which, according to lawyers, although it has the right to decide questions of custody of children in Norway, is not a judicial body.
This was useful, thank you, Nemo.
It might be of (negative) interest to the Lithuanian member of the European Parliament Valentinas Mazuronis to note a new parliamentary proposal in Norway which (of course) will make matters even worse. It may not be accepted by our parliament, of course, but is quite likely to pass into law:
Here it comes the parliamentary proposal of criminalising taking children back from acute / temporary placement away from the familyRepresentantforslag 71 S (2014-2015) (Midlertidig) (Proposal from parliamentary representative 71 S (2014-2015) (Temporary)
Stortinget (the Norwegian parliament), 12 March 2015
It has been clear for some time that this would come, cf that the question was taken up by our authorities in connection with the case of the Lithuanian boy Gabrielius:
especially points 4 and 5 here and
Written question from Jenny Klinge (Sp) to the Minister of Justice and Public Security, 4 - 5 February 2015. We should note that Jenny Klinge's proposal, stating that there is a lack of sanctions to take parents before a criminal court as long as the children have been taken by the CPS on the basis of a temporary decision, says that this lack
"innebærer at mindreårige som er omfattet av et akuttvedtak truffet av barnevernet, har et dårligere strafferettslig vern enn andre barn" (means that minors who are subject to an acute decision taken by the CPS have less protection in criminal law than other children).
This will also possibly affect the Czech case of Eva Michaláková's children, although there the procedure is past a temporary decision.
How many naïve souls in Norway do still believe that the child protection services (CPS) intervenes only when it is
abvsolutely necessary, after a long dialogue with the parents and after supportive measures have been tried
etc etc etc ?
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A little later:
Here is Mr Valentinas Mazuronis:
MEP Valentinas Mazuronis.