Judge Rosario Maria Cutri, president of the first civil section of the Court of Catania, reserved the decision at the end of the hearing on the request for annulment of the expatriation decree of Sarah, the 21-year-old born in the Etna capital to Tunisian parents and who, brought away from her father in Tunisia when she was a minor, she returned to Sicily on 25 August 2023 with a boat, landing in Pantelleria.
The State Attorney's Office, on behalf of the Tarpani Police Headquarters which issued the provision, requested confirmation of the decree, while the young woman's lawyer, the lawyer Giuseppe Lipera, contested it, requesting its annulment and showing photos in the courtroom. of Sarah intent on playing with her three brothers and her mother, at home and at the seaside in Sicily.
An initial appeal was rejected by the Justice of the Peace of Catania who declared himself incompetent for the territory.
Her mother, who has lived in Sicily for 23 years, with a valid permit and has three other children, maintained relations with her daughter thanks to her maternal grandparents and her trips to Tunisia and sent her sums of money.
"The concrete case in which the very young Sarah finds herself - reiterated the lawyer Lipera - is not governed by any law, therefore it must be resolved with common sense. This girl was born in Catania, in this city she left her mother and three brothers only because she was kidnapped by her father. Her mother waited for her for years, unfortunately trying in vain all the ways to get her back when she was a minor. She tried countless times to reunite with her beloved mother, but the bureaucratic machinations of our system prevented her from doing so. always prevented."
The lawyer Lipera has announced that he will file a complaint for defamation against the representative of the State Attorney's Office, contesting, he anticipated, the sentence that "it is good, however, to immediately dispel any doubts in relation to the rambling ruminations - with a more political than legal value - on the girl's citizenship" which the lawyer considered "absolutely offensive and injurious as well as incorrect".
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