Shmuel Peleg, maternal grandfather of little Eitan accused of his kidnapping, was arrested and immediately released.
The investigating judge of the Court of Pavia ordered the replacement of the precautionary measure in prison with the ban on staying in Pavia, Milan and Varese, which the man must leave within 48 hours, and the ban on approaching his nephew.
In the next few hours Shmuel Peleg will return to Israel.
"I thought I had the right to be with my nephew, that I had done something lawful. The little one has always been fine with me, I never hid it, as soon as we arrived in Tel Aviv I immediately informed Aunt Aya and the authorities locals".
So, in essence, he defended himself in the interrogation, which lasted about three hours in front of the investigating judge of Pavia, Shmuel Peleg, maternal grandfather of Eitan, the only child who survived the tragedy of Mottarone.
Assisted by the lawyer Paolo Sevesi, Peleg reiterated what he had said several times even in some interviews, rejecting the accusation of having kidnapped his nephew, when he took him to Israel on 11 September 2021. Peleg, on whom the order of custody in prison issued by the magistrates of Pavia and an international arrest warrant, as reported by the lawyer Sevesi who assists him with his colleague Sara Carsaniga, "he showed up spontaneously this morning at Malpensa".
Waiting for him were the lawyers and agents of the Flying Squad to carry out the arrest.
A procedure, in practice, 'agreed'.
"He was then immediately taken from the airport to the Court, in front of the investigating judge without handcuffs and for three hours he gave explanations on everything,