The case of a couple who claim to be Romanian and who asked the authorities of Tierra del Fuego for Argentine citizenship for their alleged son who they claim was born in the Malvinas Islands, became a story full of mystery and above all of numerous questions.
Clarín came to this story after the publication of it through Twitter by the fueguino journalist Gabriel Ramonet.
And because in addition, they came to ask Senator Pablo Blanco, candidate for governor for Together for Change in last Sunday's elections, to echo the case, and to claim Argentine nationality for the child, presenting it as an issue related to the conflict of British Argentine sovereignty over the islands. Blanco even made a statement.
Clarín accessed the documentation that this couple gave to a lawyer and spoke with the lawyer. But when this newspaper wanted to deepen information that did not close anywhere, the lawyer demanded on the one hand that the name of the minor not be written, pointed out that the parents no longer wanted the story to be written and then, asked that their own name not be recorded either.
The biggest question mark at the moment is that the alleged Romanian couple sent the lawyer a birth certificate from Bucharest, Romania (it appears legalized as such), which says that the child whose initials are D.P, was born in "Stanley, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on September 29, 2016". And he says his parents are Sergey Popov and Golokova Roza. It says that birth certificate was obtained on June 14, 2017 in Bucharest Romania.
The documents that the alleged Romanian couple sent to a lawyer in Tierra del Fuego to naturalize their son as an Argentine. They say he was born in Malvinas.
And among all the documents that Clarín could see there is a marriage certificate of Popov and Golokova registered in the Romanian embassy in Moscow, and it says that they were married in the Russian Federation, on December 26, 2012.
Another question arises from the fact that Clarín consulted for days in the Malvinas for the version that the lawyer received from her clients. According to the lawyer, they told her that they worked for four years on the islands, had the child there and then left.
Clarín consulted in the islands and obtained from a very good source the birth registration of 2016 and there is none with the name of the minor that appears in the records under the name of D.P.
He also consulted on the islands with several sources if anyone knows a Romanian couple who work there and for now, no one knows them. In the archipelago live 3000 people, almost everyone knows each other.
This is not exclusive, since there are many temporary workers, in fishing and oil.
Clarín also asked to ask the parents of the minor why they wanted to naturalize him Argentine if they had not had any affective contact with the continent and Romania was part of the European Union, therefore they have a passport of broad geostrategic spectrum.
At the time, Clarin spoke with the lawyer why they did not send an original birth certificate issued in the Falklands.
The documents that the alleged Romanian couple sent to a lawyer in Tierra del Fuego to naturalize their son as an Argentine. They say he was born in Malvinas.
The answer, he said, is that Argentina would not recognize a document issued by "authorities of the islands that are not recognized by Argentina."
In the records and legal claims made by the fueguina lawyer to the authorities of the province it appears that it is intended that the child be recognized Argentine on the basis that the national law gives all inhabitants born in the national territory citizenship and as Malvinas is constitutionally considered Argentine territory, it must be nationalized almost automatically
For example, in 2011, the plastic artist James Peck, asked for his Argentine ID and was the first Falklander to request it after the 1982 war. Later, former President Cristina Kirchner made it a case of proselytism and exhibited it at a political event as a victory for the cause.
As this newspaper of Ramonet learned, and from the writings of the lawyer, the civil registry of Tierra del Fuego granted the demand for an Argentine birth certificate to be issued for the child D.P who would be seven years old. He would have already made a birth certificate, but at the moment they had to notify the administrative act, the provincial government stopped the process.
Although the lawyer, based on the claim of her clients, complained that she required an original proof of birth – the certificate issued by the islands – and that this was a contradiction with the sovereignty claim.
From what this newspaper understands, the government of Tierra del Fuego warned of something irregular in time. And thanks to journalist Ramonet, he had access to resolution 109 of the Ministry of Provincial Government, dated May 5, in which he decreed: the nullity of the act issued by the provincial Civil Registry, ordered the immobilization of the child's birth certificate and, among other things, ordered an administrative investigation and sent the file to the State Prosecutor and the Public Prosecutor's Office to determine if there was a commission of crimes.
