Eitan, his grandfather's lawyers at the Review Court: he was not kidnapped
Eitan case, the Review confirms the arrest warrant for grandfather Shmuel Peleg
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November 26, 2021 Gabriel Abutbul Alon, the man accused of helping Eitan's grandfather, Shmuel Peleg, to kidnap the child after taking him, during one of the periodic meetings authorized by the court, in the house of his paternal aunt, was arrested in Cyprus. Alon was arrested in Limassol, on the island of Cyprus, where he lives. The Corriere della Sera reports it. A European arrest warrant (Mae) was pending on Alon, issued by the deputy prosecutor of Pavia Mario Venditti and by the prosecutor Valentina De Stefano for the kidnapping of little Eitan Biran.
Who is Alon
The Cypriot police simply tracked his cell phone. Alon is suspected, as Corriere della Sera writes, of having been part of an American agency of contractors engaged in war theaters such as Iraq and Afghanistan and used to move with the most sophisticated techniques of coverage and anonymity.
The kidnapping
According to the investigations, on 11 September Alon helped Eitan's grandfather, Shmuel Peleg, a 58-year-old former Israeli soldier, to kidnap the child from the home of his paternal aunt, Aya Biran, who had been in foster care since the May 23 incident. of the Mottarone cable car, in which the little boy lost his parents and his 2-year-old brother. Eitan's mom was Shmuel Peleg's daughter. Eitan was taken by car to Switzerland and from there to Israel aboard a private plane chartered days before by Alon for 46,000 euros. The plane landed in Tel Aviv in the late afternoon.
The arrest warrants
Just two days after the kidnapping, at the request of the prosecutors, the investigating judge Pasquale Villani issued a custody order against them which was followed by the Mae for Alon, who with this procedure could soon return to Italy, and an international arrest warrant for Peleg that, but it would appear that the warrants will not be carried out by the Tel Aviv authorities.