Mottarone, Commissioner for missing persons: “Other children brought abroad like Eitan”

The drama of little Eitan, the only survivor of the Mottarone tragedy and today disputed by his maternal relatives on the one hand and by his paternal ones on the other, is just a drop in the sea of ​​children brought abroad by parents of different nationalities. “In this case we are talking about international abduction, a real kidnapping – prefect Silvana Riccio, extraordinary commissioner of the government for missing persons, explains to Adnkronos – The cases are mostly related to divorces between parents of nationality different for which one of the two brings the child to his country. It is a phenomenon linked to the evolution of society with mixed marriages and on this there is an inter-ministerial table in which the Ministry of the Interior, Justice and Foreign Affairs participates “. Instead, it is among adolescents that the numbers become “heavy”. “The children between 13 and 14 who leave voluntarily are many, many: almost the two minors who disappear every day in Italy. Three hundred and thirty-six have yet to be found. Objective data – specifies the prefect – based on the complaints presented. The network plays an important role with its articulations, because the distorted use made of it can generate false expectations, encounters, which however all arise from forms of mental or environmental, scholastic, bullying or family distress. high enough, we have to worry about those not found, where either there is an express will not to be found “.” With the Postal Police we have identified a site on which advice on how to disappear – says Riccio – The network offers a thousand opportunities but also some dangerous opportunities for children, we are talking about minors, weak subjects. The phenomenon is unfortunately growing, despite the great work of raising awareness that and we do, even with the schools with which we are in contact to pass the concept of the danger of moving away and disappearing. We then made an agreement with the Lazio Sports Society, which is committed to supporting the initiatives of the Extraordinary Commissioner aimed at raising awareness on the phenomenon of missing persons, making its own football team available for the dissemination of messages during home matches. institutional. Attention to missing minors is maximum and all possible tools are on the pitch. “By Silvia Mancinelli