«I am very bad. It is a very critical moment for me, ” says Juana Rivas (Maracena, Granada, 1981). At his side are his children of five and 13 years. The dour face, the tearful look and one more defeat. This time, the Granada Court denied him the precautionary measures for a new complaint of mistreatment by the Spanish against her ex-husband Francesco Arcuri. Nor did he have the permission of the services of minors of the Junta de Andalucía before his complaint of "serious risk to the physical and psychological integrity" of the children. He intended to guard his children and not return to Italy, where they reside with the father.

Arcuri, two years ago, lived a tremendous media campaign against him. He seemed guilty and Juana the victim. But no. The courts were ratifying, little by little, his version against the succession of her complaints against him. In July 2018, Rivas was sentenced to five years in prison for the kidnapping of his two children in 2017, the costs and compensation of 30,000 euros for moral damages. In March of this year, the prison sentence was ratified and the compensation was left at 12,000.

This Thursday, Juana's flight with the children took off at 7:36 am from the San Pablo airport (Seville). He landed at 9:30 in Cagliari (Sardinia). He had to give the children to his father - he has sole custody of the children as the civil court of this Sardinian city ruled in March this year - and he had to do it at home. I can't, he said. He argued that he had no strength.

Upon verifying that Juana is not going to take the children to their rightful place, Arcuri leaves her home in Carloforte, an island adjacent to Sardinia, with some fear. It is 81.2 km away. Although the thermometer marks 26 degrees, the sensation is many more for a father who goes with a huge dose of fatigue. More mental than physical. Even during her vacations with the children in Spain, Juana had denounced him again. Again. He had already won every judicial battle since she decided, in July 2017, to flee with the boys. And she has been losing them all.

"I don't want to see Juana in jail," he told Chronicle (September 2017), after receiving the children after Juana's escape. Sentenced to five years - the sentence is pending ratification by the Supreme Court - the ruling emphasizes an important thing for Francesco: «Mr. Arcuri, no matter how much he presents him as an abuser, has not been convicted for it, since the Judgment of 2009 was fulfilled and his criminal record must have been canceled ». To make matters worse, THE WORLD has published that, "according to the parts of the abuse, he had more injuries than Rivas, and withdrew the complaint against her and agreed to be convicted of fear of not being able to see her son."

The Italian hotelier -Arcuri and his children live in his pension in Carloforte- cannot still get rid of that word: "fear." Juana has not stopped denouncing him. Also in the distance. This summer, Rivas took the boys on vacation on June 7. By July 22, he already had a new accusation. Actually, three in the same writing. They were said to "continue to suffer abuse, including death threats from their father." And he referred to the aggressions of May 29, of an "undetermined" date and only one day before they returned with her. He requested, from Spain, "the urgent adoption of criminal and civil measures for the protection of minors." He presented his allegations in Andalusia. Result: the Court of Instruction 3 of Granada has declared "the incompetence of the Spanish jurisdiction" for the case. Already in February the Italian Public Prosecutor's Office had filed eight complaints by Juana against Arcuri. And it is emphatic in its reasons. For being "unlikely the narrative of extraordinary violence" described by Rivas. Like, Francesco had given it to one of the children "smelling like cat pee."

Nor did he accept as proof a letter from the eldest son of Arcuri and Rivas where he wrote about his dad: "I'm always afraid that he will kill us, it's like a scary movie and you can't escape." The latter was considered as evidence, on the other hand, of the "manipulation" of the mother. Quite the opposite of what is said about Francesco: "an affectionate father who takes care of his children." The complaints ranged from 2016 to 2018.

Thursday of the reunion with their children. Arcuri arrives at the new point that Rivas improvised. He is used to these ups and downs. He reunites with his children, after a long vacation, and that is what really matters to him.

It is not known what the Spanish mother lives in Italy. According to the documentation of her legal team, "they tried to seize Juana for judicial costs and she claimed that her only income is 420 euros a month." He lives in Cagliari and there, when the children are in school, he has them every weekend without deprivation. "She owes him the pension, the 300 euros he owes to pay each month, which he has never paid" ...

What does deplete Arcuri - of the visiting regime - is that he often has to pick them up in social services. And sometimes when you arrive you will find a new barrage. Can so much filed complaint have consequences for Juana? «Carloforte's social services have asked the judge to cut the visitation regime». Another fact that has amazed them and for which they are considering taking action: «I would have had them in July doing activities around the center of the woman in Maracena (Granada). As if they were victims of gender violence ».

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