Macedonian Court Deprives Bulgarian Mother of Parental Rights

Politics » DIPLOMACY | March 11, 2010, Thursday // 18:15
Macedonian Court Deprives Bulgarian Mother of Parental Rights: Macedonian Court Deprives Bulgarian Mother of Parental Rights Spaska Mitrova, who is pictured with Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, during her October visit to Bulgaria after being released from jail, vows to continue fighting her child custody case. Photo by BGNES

The Court in the Macedonian town of Gevgeli ruled to give custody rights to the father of 3-year old-Suzanna, daughter of Bulgarian Spaska Mitrova and Serbian Voislav Savic.

Upon entering the courtroom, Mitrova told the representatives of the Bulgarian media gathered outside that she was optimistic about the outcome. The magistrates, however, ruled, after hour-long debates, to give the parental rights to Savic, while Mitrova would have to pay child support in the amount of EUR 40 per month.

Mitrova will appeal within the 15-day deadline. She commented that there is nothing worse than a child being taken away from her mother and vowed to continue her fight. Her lawyer stated that the case is no longer a matter of domestic issues as divorce and custody rights, but of State policy.

The case has been postponed several times already. Mitrova has been threatened with repression if she does not leave Macedonia.

The young woman, who lives in Macedonia, holds a Bulgarian passport and perceives herself as Bulgarian, was sentenced and served time in a Macedonian prison over charges she did not allow her husband to see Suzanna. She was released on parole, but then the parental rights case began. She has been the cause of diplomatic scandal between the two countries in 2009.

In mid-February Mitrova was allowed to see her 3-year-old daughter Suzanna for the first time in the last year and a half. She says she spent 5 hours with her and had to take her almost by force from the social home where the girl is placed.

On February 23, Bulgaria’s nationalist VMRO party reported that about 10 policemen in uniform broke in Mitrova's parents house and threatened her that if even one Bulgarian reporter is present at the Wednesday trial, she would have to live through horror much exceeding everything that has happened to her so far.

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