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Black Hole Of Child Abduction In Japan
Michele Becattini in Tokyo during he takes the subway to go to Hamamatsu to meet his son who was kidnapped by his maternal grandparents. He married a Japanese woman named Eiko Kakizawa on 8 July 2004 in Italy, and on June 23, 2007 the son Masato was born. In July 2011, his wife was diagnosed as malignant breast cancer. to cope with the therapies, his wife preferred to return from her parents to Hamamatsu in Japan bringing her son. On 8 March 2014 Eiko Kakizawa died at the age of 40. He knew indirectly about his wife's death six hours later, warned by one of friends of Eiko, who lives in Italy but not by her in-laws. This behavior of the in-laws, says Michele Becattini "It was premeditated, but I managed to take part in the funeral.On the day of my arrival, my father-in-law had arranged to tell me that he wanted to keep my son Masato in Japan. I stayed in Japan for a week, but my parents-in-law physically kept me out from my son Masato, at that very sad moment of his life. I did not even have the chance to honor my wife's grave. Even now, no one tell me where he is. So at the moment I could not bring my son in Italy because my in-laws kid-napped my son" Michele Becattini started the process in 2015 to get his son back and ended in 2017 with the sentence of the Supreme Court, in favor of the return of his son to Italy. The execution date was set for May 23, 2017 but has never been applied by the court. Michele Becattini has seen and met his son for about 10 hours in total, although he came to Japan and stayed in Hamamatsu for 83 days in 4 years. Michele Becattini says "Despite three degrees of judgment in favor and a judicial process over four years, the Japanese institutions approached the execution in a hasty, superficial and indifferent way, making me feel so defrauded and derided.This is a case of child abduction, but nobody has managed it as such. The Japanese authorities have not taken into account my case. The social workers and / or psychologists have not
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| Photographer | Alessandro Di Ciommo/NurPhoto |
| Category | Reportage |
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