There is currently a pretty insane celeb custody case covered in the German media between a heir and her ex-husband (I didnt know either of them, the heir is in a relationship with a very famous former football presenter though). The story goes as follows: the former couple has been in a custody fight about their two youngest kids (they have 4 in total, the two oldest were split, more on that later) for a decade(!). The kids are 10 and 13. The mother lives in Hamburg, the father with his new partner in Denmark. For several years they did manage to co-parent, but one day the father didnt return the kids. The mother fought for her parental rights and got a German court to give her the right to determine the place of residence of the kids. The issue is that the Danish (as the only EU country because they didnt sign those agreements) do not have to comply with German orders, so they instead handled the case and didnt deem it necessary for the father to hand the kids back, recently they gave the father even full custody. The thing is that the Germans (because they did sign those agreements) do have to comply with whatever the Danish court ordered on the other hand. So when on NYE after being for two years seperated from her kids the mother hired 8 kidnappers (!!!) to violently bring the kids back to her the German court had to step in and bring the kids back to Denmark. They also say that they have no longer anything to do with this custody case anyway because it basically switched to Denmark. The kids were then brought by their dad to a children's house for abused kids.
The case is not entirely clear, it does feel like the German press is a bit biased towards the mother, the latest reports are that the kids were crying and wanted to stay with the mother when they were taken back to Denmark again. However, there are also reports of the kids having alleged violence by the mother (the eldest who is not part of the custody fight lives with the father and seems to be the main accuser, she is even quoted with her accusations), but we know that these things are not always true. And there are reports that one child alerted the Danish police when they were kidnapped thanks to a alert button their father had equipped them with because he feared that they could be kidnapped. Either way I think neither parent comes off well in that case for different reasons.
As absurd as it sounds, but by making the kids psychos and thus impossible for Ioan to have any parenting time with at least Alice has taken herself the possibility away to end up doing insane loophole kidnapping stories (which she definitely had in mind, she was threatening moves to the UK many times). What she currently does to her kids is insanely damaging for their life and their future, but it's at least not super-traumatic (although I bet she puts a lot effort into it to make it as traumatic as possible, the fake RO being the highlight).
The case is not entirely clear, it does feel like the German press is a bit biased towards the mother, the latest reports are that the kids were crying and wanted to stay with the mother when they were taken back to Denmark again. However, there are also reports of the kids having alleged violence by the mother (the eldest who is not part of the custody fight lives with the father and seems to be the main accuser, she is even quoted with her accusations), but we know that these things are not always true. And there are reports that one child alerted the Danish police when they were kidnapped thanks to a alert button their father had equipped them with because he feared that they could be kidnapped. Either way I think neither parent comes off well in that case for different reasons.
As absurd as it sounds, but by making the kids psychos and thus impossible for Ioan to have any parenting time with at least Alice has taken herself the possibility away to end up doing insane loophole kidnapping stories (which she definitely had in mind, she was threatening moves to the UK many times). What she currently does to her kids is insanely damaging for their life and their future, but it's at least not super-traumatic (although I bet she puts a lot effort into it to make it as traumatic as possible, the fake RO being the highlight).