Giovanni Bocci, the father of Adelio, the child kidnapped by his mother and taken to Kazakhstan nine years ago, when he was only one year old, is desperate. While international arrest warrants are pending on the woman, questions to the Italian and European Parliament and letters to President Mattarella were not enough to unblock the situation. «We have filed a complaint against the Brindisi prosecutor’s office representing the inertia in the action relating to the affair of little Adelio. Now we ask that the Potenza prosecutor’s office deal with the abduction of the minor”, announces Pierluigi Vicidomini, Bocci’s lawyer.
“The lady took the child away from the marital home suddenly and without explanation: for this she was convicted of international child abduction”, recalls the lawyer, highlighting that “in 2015 hell began for my client”. The man, originally from Brindisi, thanks also to the collaboration of the Penelope association, addressed not only the head of state, but also the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani.
«But nothing has changed, they have made visits to Kazakhstan with which they sign pacts and agreements, but no one cares about Adelio», adds Annalisa Loconsole, president of Penelope. In the request for arraignment presented to the Potenza prosecutor’s office, competent for the territory, we read that the child “is illicitly detained in Kazakhstan by a convicted person who has no parental responsibility”.
Bocci asks to verify whether there are “omissions in the execution of two irrevocable sentences, the extradition of the condemned woman, and the repatriation of my minor son”. In recent years, contact with the boy has become increasingly rare and some photos and videos have revealed evidence of beatings and punches, as well as attitudes of fear and submission on the part of the child which further alarmed the father.
