​The four-year-old and nine-month-old girl was found after the intervention of the Neamts County Police after her father refused to return her to her mother because the parents were divorced. When the police arrived, a man and an elderly man were threatening each other with an ax. The child was found in the basement of the house together with his father’s concubine.

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“On March 26 of this year, a 43-year-old woman from Reucesti reported to the police of the Sevineshti Rural Police Department by phone 112 that on the same day her ex-husband of 64 years allegedly refused to return a minor aged 4 years and 9 months according to the dating schedule. established by the Pyatra-Neamts court. The police arrived at the house of a man from the city of Savinest, when he was supposed to threaten in such a way as to cause a state of fear for the safety of a minor,” the Neamts District Police Inspectorate reported from news.ro.

Intervention groups were sent there, consisting of police officers from the Savineshti Rural Police Department, the Piatra-Niamts Police, fighters and negotiators from the Special Actions Service of Namiats.

“There was a 64-year-old man in the mentioned building who was threatened with an ax together with another 90-year-old man. “After the violent intervention of the police, the minor was found in the basement of the house together with the concubine (32 years old) of the 64-year-old man,” the source said.

The police opened criminal proceedings for failure to take measures to detain a minor in order to establish the reasons and conditions under which this event occurred.

According to the source, the child is not in any danger.