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The article below
concerning international child abduction via the Netherlands is worrying.
Remember that a child
who is in any country in Europe’s Schengen Areamay then be taken into another
Schengen country without a passport. The Schengen Borders
Code requires
participating states to remove all obstacles to free traffic flow at internal
borders.
But note that only
the European territory of the Netherlands is part of the Schengen Area.
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, Saba, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten have a separate
visa system from the European part of the Netherlands.
CHILD ABDUCTIONS
THROUGH SCHIPHOL ON THE RISE
Posted on Jul 14, 2014 by Marvin Hokstam
The number of
children that are kidnapped by one of their parents and taken abroad via
Schiphol international airport is increasing, the Royal Marechaussee have
reported.
The elite armed unit said today that
its agents arrested eleven suspects of child abduction so far in 2014; that is
just as many as the entire number of arrests for similar cases in 2013.
A Marechaussee spokesperson said that
officers have turned to paying more attention to every parent who travels
abroad with their children. “And if we think that it’s suspicious the parent is
taken into custody.”
It is not clear why there has been an
increase in arrests. “It does cause us to be concerned. Every abduction is one
too many.” The Marechaussee recommends that parents traveling with alone their
children carry a permission from the other parent, to prevent hold-ups at
border crossings.
http://www.nltimes.nl/2014/07/14/child-abductions-schiphol-rise
