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« on: October 19, 2013, 09:01:59 pm »

Greece riveted by mystery of 'blonde angel'
10/19/13
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police have asked Interpol to help them track down the real parents of a blonde girl with green eyes who was found in a Roma camp in central Greece.

Known as Maria, the four-year-old was spotted peeking out from under a blanket at a Roma settlement near the town of Farsala during a police sweep on Wednesday for suspected drug trafficking.

She speaks just a few words in the Roma dialect and Greek, and police think she may be of northern or eastern European origin, possibly from Scandinavia or Bulgaria.

Police have sent Interpol a file with all the evidence they have on the girl, including DNA samples, to seek a possible match with its records on missing children, a police official said. They have also contacted international groups and charities that deal with lost or abducted children.

"Mystery - a blonde angel without an identity," top-selling daily Ta Nea wrote on its front page on Saturday.

Photos released by police of Maria staring blankly at the camera with muddy hands and scruffy pigtails have dominated the media. Parallels were drawn to the case of Briton Madeleine McCann, who vanished while on holiday in Portugal in 2007, when she was three years old.

DNA tests have shown the couple in the Roma camp with whom Maria was living were not her biological parents. The 40-year-old woman and 39-year-old man have been arrested and charged with abducting a minor, and police are investigating whether the girl was a victim of trafficking.

CRYING AND FRIGHTENED

During questioning, the couple gave at least five conflicting accounts of how the child ended up with them, including that she was found outside a supermarket, police said.

The woman had two different identification documents and other papers suggested the couple had up to 14 children, but six were registered as having been born within less than 10 months. They received 2,790 euros ($3,800) a month in child benefits, a police source said.

"This has never happened before - to have found the child and to be looking for the parents," said Natalie Karakouliafi of the Smile of the Child charity, which is looking after the girl. In response to an international appeal, it has received more than 5,000 calls since Friday from people looking for their missing children or offering clues.

The charity received reports that the girl was forced to beg for money in the streets but its director, Costas Giannopoulos, said she was in good health.

"She was frightened and cried herself to sleep. She is not looking for anyone and she is devoted to play," he told Reuters. "It has shaken everyone and has helped bring to light a major problem - just how easy it is to traffic children".

Local police chief Vasilis Halastis told Greek TV: "We're always searching for lost children. In this case we're searching for the opposite: the biological, natural parents. This is unprecedented."
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« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2013, 11:12:31 am »

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10/21/13
10,000 possible clues after mystery blonde girl found in Greece

Greek authorities trying to solve the mystery of the blonde girl found in a Gypsy camp last week have been inundated with more than 10,000 calls or emails offering potential leads.

“The calls have come in primarily from within Greece,” said Panagiotis Pardalis, a communications officer at The Smile of a Child charity. “But emails have come in from across Europe, as well as from the United States, Canada, Australia and South Africa.” 

The child known as Maria “appears to be at peace and is happy,” he added. “She is playing and also communicating with the people around her.”

He added that the “mystery blonde girl,” as she has been dubbed by the Greek media, remains in a hospital where a dental examination showed she is between five and six years old. 

Authorities are trying to identify where she originates from.

The girl was spotted peeking out from under a blanket on Wednesday as police swept the Roma settlement for suspected drug trafficking near Farsala, a small town around 170 miles north of the Greek capital, Athens.

She speaks just a few words in the Roma dialect and Greek, and police think she may be of northern or eastern European origin, possibly from Scandinavia or Bulgaria.

DNA tests have shown the couple in the Roma camp who Maria was living with were not her biological parents.

The 40-year-old woman and 39-year-old man have been arrested and charged with abducting a minor, and police are investigating whether the girl was a victim of trafficking.

During questioning, the couple gave at least five conflicting accounts of how the child ended up with them, including that she was found outside a supermarket, police told Reuters.

The woman had two different identification documents and other papers suggested the couple had up to 14 children, but six were registered as having been born within less than 10 months. They received 2,790 euros ($3,800) a month in child benefits, a police source told the agency.

They are expected to appear in a Greek court Monday.

A lawyer for the couple told NBC News’ U.K. partner ITV News they were given her as a baby, when she was five days' old, as part of an adoption.

Constantinos Katsavos said the child was passed to the couple by an impoverished Bulgarian woman and that by finding her it will prove them not guilty of abducting a minor.

"It is our effort to find the physical mother," he said. "If the mother is found I think (the verdict against the couple) will be not guilty."

The president of the local Romany gypsy community, Babis Dimitrios also told reporters that children are have not been bought and sold in his town.

"Is the woman who found the child at fault? She should have gone to the police (and say) 'the Bulgarian abandoned the child with me and got up and left,’" he said.

Police have sent Interpol a file with all the evidence they have on the girl, including DNA samples, to seek a possible match with its records on missing children.

The possibility of a smuggling ring bringing pregnant women into Greece from Bulgaria and then putting the children up for sale was also being investigated, according to the Greek state owned news agency, Amna.

“People smuggling syndicates are drawn by huge profits that can be made, while benefiting from weak legislation and the relatively low risk of detection, prosecution and arrest compared to other activities of transnational organized crime,” Interpol say on their website.   
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« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2013, 07:10:24 pm »

http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/couple-say-mother-gave-up-greek-mystery-girl-to-them?gtg1=51501
Couple say mother gave up Greek mystery girl to them
10/21/13

A Roma couple in Greece faces charges of abduction and procuring false documents after a 4-year-old girl with pale skin and blue eyes was found in their camp.

LARISSA, Greece — A Roma couple accused of abducting a mystery 4-year-old girl dubbed the "blonde angel" by Greek media told a court Monday that her biological mother willingly gave her to them as a baby because she could not look after the girl.

The discovery of the girl, known as Maria, has riveted Greece and prompted thousands of calls with leads from across the world as authorities try to track down her real parents, as DNA tests have shown she was not born to the Romas.

The case has raised questions about whether children are being stolen to order and whether the couple were part of a wider child trafficking ring — in addition to deepening mistrust between the Roma community and the Greeks.

The pair were arrested after police, who raided a Roma camp in central Greece last week in search of drugs and weapons, found the girl with pale skin and blue eyes who did not resemble the family she was living with.

Christos Salis, right, and his companion Eleftheria Dimopoulou pose with the little girl only known as "Maria" in the Larisa regional police headquarters on Oct. 17.

The couple — who faced magistrates Monday to respond to charges of abduction and procuring false documents — deny they snatched the girl and say they took her under their care after her mother handed the girl to them shortly after giving birth.

"It was an adoption that was not exactly legal but took place with the mother's consent," Constantinos Katsavos, one of the lawyers representing the 39-year-old man, told reporters, adding that is what the couple testified in court.

The man and woman responded to the charges behind closed doors as more than a dozen policemen stood guard outside.

The court will decide whether they will be kept in custody pending trial or released.

So far more than 5,000 people, from Texas to Sweden, have phoned the charity looking after Maria to offer clues or search for their missing children.

Based on her characteristics, police believe Maria, who utters just a few words in Greek and Roma dialect, is eastern or northern European.

Parallels have been drawn to the case of Britons Madeleine McCann, who vanished while on holiday in Portugal in 2007, when she was three, and Ben Needham, who disappeared on the Greek island of Kos in 2001, when he was a toddler.

In the sunny, bustling square outside the court in the city of Larissa where the Roma couple faced magistrates, members of the Roma community gathered to show their support and said they were being unfairly stigmatised.

"They are completely innocent. These are all fairy tales and we're going to prove it to society," Babis Dimitriou, the head of the local Roma community, told Reuters.

"They accuse the Roma of everything — of stealing, of snatching kids. Do these things only happen among our race? This is a huge insult for us," he said.

Police have found that the woman had two different identification documents and other papers suggested the couple had up to 14 children, but six were registered as having been born within less than 10 months.
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« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2013, 06:15:24 am »

Maria: Greek Roma couple charged with abduction

A Roma couple have been formally charged in Greece with abducting a young blonde girl, and they have been placed in detention pending a trial.

The girl, named Maria, was found during a raid on a Roma camp in central Greece last week.

DNA tests showed that she was not related to the couple, who insist they were given her legitimately.

Maria is being cared for by a charity in Athens, which has received more than 8,000 calls after an appeal.

The Roma couple appeared before judges on Monday to answer charges of abducting a minor and holding false papers.

The 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman were identified by Greek police as Christos Salis and Eleftheria Dimopoulou.

rest: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24605954
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