Overview

• Francesco Arcuri appeared by videoconference before Granada’s Investigating Court No. 4 and confirmed his complaint in full over the alleged unlawful retention of his 11-year-old son.
• Judicial sources say the judge urged discretion about the testimony and rejected some defense questions as outside the scope of the abduction probe.
• Rivas’s lawyers announced they will request that the child be heard in the Spanish case, and Rivas is summoned to testify as an investigated person on October 30.
• The child previously told a Spanish court he feared his father and alleged physical and psychological abuse, while related mistreatment proceedings are being pursued in Cagliari with a hearing scheduled for October 23.
• Italian courts have granted the father exclusive custody, and the boy returned to Italy on July 25 after spending roughly seven months in Spain despite the Italian return order.