Overview

• Italian and Hungarian authorities uncovered Chantal in Mezőtúr on June 12, acting on a European arrest warrant issued in 2023
• Her mother, 42-year-old Klaudia Ildiko Sallai, was detained under a European arrest warrant on charges of child abduction
• The 13-year-old has never attended school or spoken Italian during her concealment and is now placed with her maternal grandmother
• Andrea Tonello secured sole custody before the kidnapping and spearheaded public appeals that led to a bilateral investigative task force in 2018
• Tonello now faces the emotional and logistical challenge of rebuilding trust across language and educational gaps