Natalia’s Portuguese friends, Joao Pinheiro and Florinda Vieira from the small town of Barcelos located 30 km from Braga, were helping Natalia looking after her daughter while she was away working.
In May of 2007 the Portuguese authorities found out that Natalia had been living in Portugal illegally and decided to deport the woman and her daughter from the country.
Joao and Florinda demanded the girl should be left with them and filed a suit against Natalia. The Portuguese court was on their side. The court’s verdict was treated in Portugal as a shock. Mass media quoted statements by Joao and Florinda who said that Alexandra would have to face an absolutely different life in Russia.
This legal case started in June of 2007. A court of the town of Barcelos originally ordered to leave the child with the Portuguese foster parents.
Later the girl’s mother managed to persuade the court to take her side. Appeals by the Portuguese foster parents reached the constitutional court but were rejected.
ПОЧЕМУ сначала суд (по-человечески шокированный происходящим) вынес решение в пользу португальской пары, а затем отказался от этого решения и даже не стал его пересматривать?
У португальцев были преимущества выиграть дело:
хорошие условия жизни для девочки, их постоянное участие в жизни ребенка в течении
4,5 лет, возможность иметь толкового адвоката, неприглядное поведение матери девочки-
невооруженным взглядом это отражено на ее внешности.....
Значит были причины?
