It is their child, their battle.
On the occasion of the International Day of Missing Children, this Wednesday, men warn of the loneliness that overwhelms the fathers of families who are victims of parental abductions: considered in some countries as being less important than the mothers, the latter struggle to do assert their rights.
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This is evidenced by the hunger strike started by the Frenchman Vincent Fichot, in July 2021, in order to call for help from the authorities on the kidnapping of his daughter and son, now aged 4 and 6.
Four months later, French justice issued an arrest warrant against his Japanese wife, who had kidnapped her children in 2018. A drop in the sea?
This is what certain fathers say who, like Vincent Fichot, have not seen their binational children for two, three, four or even six years.
Nearly 500 parental abductions each year
This is the case of Pierre-Vincent, 52 years old.
One Sunday morning in September 2015, he does not yet know that he is kissing his daughter Amélie for the…
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