« Non, il n’a pas été kidnappé » affirme l’avocate du père de l’enfant parti à Oman
Maud Quinault questions her ex-husband and doubts that he will bring their son back…
Maud Quinault questions her ex-husband and doubts that he will bring their son back to France. What do you answer him?
This is an extremely sensitive and complex matter. I fully understand Ms. Quinault’s position and today I have compassion for this mother who has not seen her son since April 17. I hear her cry but I would first like to point out that she is in almost daily contact with him via WhatsApp on video. When the child’s father left, he told him that he was returning to Oman and that Fahad-Louis was going to see his family.
My objective, today, is to arrive at a mediation so that this mother can see her son again under completely normal conditions because the balance of a child depends on relations with his father and his mother.
It seems quite complicated. How do you plan to achieve this?
First of all, we must reestablish a truth around this file. Fahad-Louis is Omani, he does not have French nationality, even if his mother is French. The couple married in 2013 and they have always lived in Oman until August 2019 when Madame Quinault came to spend holidays in France, then in London and then in Italy.
What strikes Mr. Al Maamari a lot is that we are talking about kidnapping when it comes first from the side of the mother who has never asked for the French nationality of her child. She was due to return in September 2019 and stayed in France because she was in contact with a lot of European investors as part of her work as an interior designer in Oman and she was the subject of a complaint for embezzling a sum of money. This is how it was first developed in Bergerac.
What was Mr. Al Maamari’s reaction?
He filed a first complaint with the Paris prosecutor’s office and then with Bergerac for child abduction, forgery and use of forgery because she enrolled her son in school by imitating the signature of Monsieur. She says she suffered violence from her ex-husband but a dismissal order was issued because these facts are not proven. She was sent back to the criminal court and it is true that she was actually released a few weeks ago.
In the meantime, she seized the family affairs judge of Bergerac to obtain a divorce, but this request was rejected because the Omani marriage has never been transcribed in France and is therefore not recognized on national territory. The Bordeaux Court of Appeal confirmed this judgment. The custody of the child was decided according to an alternating residence set up at the end of April 2021.
Did it go well?
Yes, but behind all that, there’s a lot of money at stake. It’s a family that has a very good position in Oman and a certain way of life. Mr. Al Maamari is a real estate developer and his father was the General of the Sultan until his retirement in 2011. My client left all that and arrived in France in November 2019. He left his job, his family to come home and move into an aparthotel even though he doesn’t speak a word of French.
He never intended to leave and always paid alimony of 1,000 euros per month and paid half of the child’s school fees. He takes care of his son every other week and only wants one thing: his son has a balance between his father and his mother.
“We have to get this case resolved. I dare a note of hope to restore a situation in the interest of this child “
So he didn’t kidnap his child…