Marie has returned home! The abduction of Marie ended 10th October 2017 when Marie was finally returned to her mother after 5 1/2 months.

The ordeal of four year old Marie ended on Monday 10th October 2017 when the Norwegian father surrendered to the Norwegian police and the child was returned to her Cypriot mother. The child was violently abducted on the 27th April 2017 from the hands of her mother outside her kinder garden. The father, who was behind the abduction then remained in hiding with the child for 5 and a half months traveling between Cyprus, Turkey and Greece before making his way to Norway where he surrendered to the Norwegian police. Our law firm has been representing the mother since October 2015 when the father first attempted to abduct the child by briefly retaining the child illegally in Norway. The mother was a able to make her way back to Cyprus with Marie a few days later after our firm obtained a court order from the Nicosia Family Court for the immediate return of the child to Cyprus. We then provided legal advise and assistance to the mother in a complicate cross-borders which involved three jurisdictions as well as the illegal authority of the Turkish Occupied area of the island. The turning point of the case was the issuing of a court order by the Oslo Court under the Hague Convention for the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. At the same time the father was facing a manhunt spanning several jurisdictions and was facing the risk of a long prison sentence in case of arrest outside his home jurisdiction. The father was thus forced to make his way to Norway and surrender the child to the authorities there which had no option but to abide with the order of the Oslo court and return the child to the mother thus bringing an end to a case that had shocked the whole of Cypriot society. Our firm is still advising the mother on custody and visitation matters.