Macedonia Rules in Favor of Bulgarian Mother

Crime | October 17, 2010, Sunday // 08:23|  views

Spaska Mitrova lives in Macedonia, holds a Bulgarian passport and perceives herself as Bulgarian. Photo by BGNES

The court in the Macedonian town of Gevgeli granted on Friday custody rights to Bulgarian mother, Spaska Mitrova, who was thrown for three months in a Skopje jail last year for preventing her former husband from meeting their child.

The court will present its ruling and the motives for it in writing by November 1, the press office of the nationalist Ataka party, which provided legal defense for Mitrova, said.

"This is the first time that a Macedonian court has pronounced a fair verdict," Mitrova commented.

In March last year the Court in the Macedonian town of Gevgeli ruled to give custody rights to the father of 3-year old Suzanna and Mitrova's estranged husband, Serbian Voislav Savic.

The trial was opened anew following an express ruling of Skopje Court of Appeals, which respected Mitrova's appeal.

Currently, the infant has been taken away from the mother by force, following a series of contradictory court decisions.

The young woman, who lives in Macedonia, holds a Bulgarian passport and perceives herself as Bulgarian. She was sentenced and served time in a Macedonian prison over charges she did not allow her husband to see their daughter Suzanna. She was released on parole, but then the parental rights case began.

Mitrova has been the cause of diplomatic scandal between the two countries since 2009.

In the aftermath of the news about the Court's rule in March, the Bulgarian Foreign Affairs Ministry expressed deep concern over the way the custody trial was held, defining it as non-transparent and staged in the conditions of a very negative public environment, which included physical force, detention, and depriving the mother of her right to see her child.

The Ambassador of Macedonia to Sofia, Alexander Vasilevski, was called the next day to the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry to provide clarifications about the Macedonian position regarding the Gevgeli court rule.

In mid-March, the Bulgarian Members of the European Parliament from all political groups decided to notify EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood, Stefan Fule, about Mitrova's case.

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