Russian woman Elena Lang, from whom the guardianship authorities of Barcelona took away two young daughters (girls six and nine years old), showed RT a photo of the institution where social services have been holding her children for three months.
There are bars on the windows, a high fence is entangled with barbed wire.
According to Lang, the orphanage looks like a real prison.
Elena and her husband are still not allowed to see their daughters.
“Even in prison there are meetings, personal items and a doctor.
Our children are deprived of all this, the conditions are worse than in prison.
Our eldest daughter has a serious illness, a disability, and doctors have never been allowed to see her.
Our attending physician issued a conclusion on the possible consequences of refusing treatment, but nothing was answered at his recommendations in the shelter.
They are holding children hostage without medical attention,” Elena Lang is indignant.
© Photo from personal archive
Earlier, RT told how juvenile officials in Barcelona, without warning, took away two daughters from a Russian woman and her Swiss husband.
As Elena said, later, from the conclusions of the social services, she found out that the spouses allegedly "stole their own children from a Ukrainian family killed during the SVO."
Neither the girls' birth certificates, nor other documents and photos confirming the relationship of children and parents convinced the guardianship authorities.
According to Elena, she and her husband were deprived of parental rights.
The girls taken from their parents have Russian and Swiss citizenship, but the Spanish authorities do not respond to requests from diplomats from both countries.
The Russian consulate assured RT that the situation in which two underage citizens of the Russian Federation found themselves was "under close supervision" of diplomats.
“We are constantly in touch with Elena's lawyer, discussing all possible options for resolving the situation.
We sent inquiries to all Spanish responsible authorities, demanding information about the health status and conditions of the girls.
Now, as one of the options, the possibility of bringing this situation to the jurisdiction of Russia is being considered, ”Vyacheslav Harutyunyan, Vice-Consul of Russia in Barcelona, told RT.
Concerned about children's health
The girls' parents are very worried about their health - after two video calls that the guardianship authorities in Barcelona allowed Elena and her husband, the couple were shocked by the condition of the children.
The older girl said that in the shelter she was not allowed to follow the diet prescribed by doctors.
The consequences for the health of the child can be very severe, her mother emphasizes.
Lang cites documents from his daughter's doctor, Dr. Ramon Tormo, who led the family to move from Switzerland to Spain a few years ago.
Moving to Barcelona with her children, Elena wanted her daughter to receive all the necessary medical care from this specialist in a timely manner.
“My daughter's doctor Ramon Tormo is the best in the world.
This is a specialist recognized in Spain, New York, Geneva, ”explains the Russian woman.
According to Dr. Tormo, the consequences of non-compliance with the correct diet for daughter Elena can be very serious.
“I remind you and regret to inform you that in the absence of strict adherence to a gluten-free diet, diseases such as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, stop in achieving final growth (in other words, (patient) may remain forever small in stature), bone loss with early development of osteopenia / osteoporosis, frequent fractures with the slightest injury, ”the doctor lists.
In an interview with RT, Elena added that now that the couple have made a fuss in the media and turned to diplomats, social services in Barcelona are trying to prove that the mother of the seized girls is insane.
Seeing how easily officials in this country can take away and lock up children in an orphanage, a woman is seriously afraid that she will be forcibly placed in a psychiatric hospital.
“I am very afraid and do not want to end my life in the local psychiatry.
I need to be okay to save the kids.
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) have no arguments against us, so they decided to get out and prove their case in the removal of children in any way so as not to lose face, ”concluded Lang.