A four-year-old Tunisian girl who landed alone in Lampedusa a month ago has returned to her homeland. The child was handed over to a representative of the head of child protection after his arrival at Tunis airport, Italian media reported. The Tunisian government stated that the little girl was healthy.
Tunisian head of state Kais Saied personally dealt with the matter and set up a committee made up of representatives from various ministries and state institutions to return the child to his Tunisian homeland.
Parents accused of ‘human trafficking’
Charges against the parents for “trafficking in human beings” were dropped, while those for child neglect remain. The parents were temporarily detained.
Father left girl on boat
The girl’s parents allegedly tried to take a boat from the Tunisian coast to Italy. To get on the boat, they had to wade through the water. The man carried the four-year-old while his wife followed with their eldest daughter. Seeing that the woman was in trouble and about to drown, the man left his four-year-old daughter in the boat to help his wife. Meanwhile the boat has left.
The child was cared for by some of the women on board during the nearly 30-hour crossing to Lampedusa and then placed in a center for minors in the Sicilian city of Agrigento. Former Tunisian MP Majdi Karbai, who lives in Italy, tried to get the child home.
Source: Krone
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