She had recently returned to Italy, thanks to a delicate international police operation, and had been entrusted to her mother, after, in 2016, her father had kidnapped her and had kept her for almost three years in Syria.
Yesterday her father, the Syrian Maher Balle, kidnapped her again, taking her from school without the knowledge of her mother, Mariana Veintimilla, 53, Ecuadorian, who had separated from the man.
At 1pm yesterday, Balle went to the middle school in the Porta Romana area, in Milan, where his daughter attended the first year, and picked her up, without the staff of the institute, perhaps uninformed, raising objections.
A witness reported seeing him with two suitcases while his cell phone was turned off. The mother, accompanied by the lawyer Angelo Musicco, reported the kidnapping to the prosecutor Cristian Barilli, owner of the file and now the man is wanted.