Elena Danilina’s husband took the girls to the UAE, saying the marriage was over. She convinced him to meet her in Morocco and that’s where things get really complicated
Elena Danilina went to sleep one night last April in her midtown Toronto condo thinking her two daughters were safely on a plane with her husband, en route via New York to Casablanca, Morocco, to visit his sick mother.A couple of worried days later, her husband told her the cold truth by text: Rita, now 11, and Maria, 6, both students at north Toronto public schools and new Canadian citizens, had been taken excruciatingly beyond her reach.
“What is happening with me and my wife has always been a matter of her story against mine,” Squalli, 50, told the National Post in an email. It is “very clear that my spouse has resorted to the media as a desperate attempt to spread falsehoods, defame my character, destroy my career, and harm my honour and dignity. My spouse is particularly unwilling to accept the fact that my daughters refuse to live with her.
For the children, life in Toronto seemed to be going well. Maria was adjusting well at kindergarten at Davisville PS. Rita’s Grade 5 report card from the Forest Hill PS gifted program, submitted to Ontario Superior court as evidence of her usual residence in support of a temporary custody order, was thoroughly positive, emphasizing her competence, diligence, respect, and co-operation. It suggested she could work on being less quiet and restrained.
The couple had agreed to raise the children Muslim. Danilina said he claimed she broke this promise by taking them to a Christmas Eve animal display at a Toronto church, and by drinking alcohol and serving pork. He also threatened to sue Danilina’s female friend, who lived in the UAE, for “inciting debauchery.” Squalli denied religion was an issue between them.
He told her that to save the marriage and family, she must move permanently to the UAE. “Given my wife’s struggle with telling the truth, I informed her that our reconciliation necessitated joining us back home in the UAE and her commitment to being honest,” Squalli told the Post. He would not return the girls to Canada, and legally, it seemed impossible to force him.
Ontario’s Central Authority for the Hague Convention in the Ministry of the Attorney General has been “actively involved in working towards the immediate return of the children,” according to a letter to Danilina in January 2019. That remains true, spokesman Brian Gray said, but since then, a court-ordered effort to return them failed at the last minute. They got as far as the airport, but Rita objected and with the consent of a prosecutor, a bailiff refused to force her.
Oulamine said he has not been served notice of any Moroccan Supreme Court hearing, and that generally the top court would uphold appellate rulings in favour of returning the children. “It’s the essence of the convention,” he said.
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