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    I came across this story whilst browsing, has anyone heard about it? any comments? Very sad!!!

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9052781/French-Jewish-mother-wins-custody-battle-against-Saudi-prince.html

    A French Jewish mother has won a custody battle in France against a Saudi prince, who has been ordered to return their 10-year old daughter he was alleged to have kidnapped after their cross-religious romance turned sour.

    For the past three-and-a-half years, the prince has kept Aya in a Riyadh palace despite efforts by the French foreign ministry and President Nicolas Sarkozy’s office to resolve the issue.

    [Osama]

    Their relationship continued until 2006 when he allegedly announced that he was obliged to marry a cousin, but that she could be a second wife. She refused and they separated.

    She said she managed to leave when a maid left her door open and she sought refuge in the French embassy.

    Despairing at the lack of diplomatic progress, she published Give My Daughter Back, a book recounting her ordeal, in October.

    Since the court ruling, the prince faces an international arrest warrant for ignoring the custody sentence.

    The prince denied ever having kidnapped the child or the mother.

    He said she had converted to Islam and the two had married in Lebanon under Islamic law, and under terms of the divorce, put through courts in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, the parents were to share custody of the child.

    He said the protocol was drawn up in Saudi Arabia offering her a house, all expenses paid and access to the child and the possibility of taking her on holiday for one-and-a-half months a year.

    The prince said he would send lawyers to France to challenge the court decision but not his daughter.

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    oomis
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    And the poor child is nebbich, the victim in all this…

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    @oomis – my thoughts exactly.

    Somehow, this story seems quite appropriate for today/tomorrow…

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