The questions surrounding the case of "Maria", the blonde girl found in a gypsy camp in central Greece, continue. On Tuesday, October 23, Interpol said that the little girl is not in its list of missing children.
Last weekend, the government of Greece requested Interpol's help to identify the so-called "Blonde Angel", who is believed to have been kidnapped by a Romani couple which has already been detained by authorities, while the girl, who was found in a gypsy camp, remains in the custody of Greek social services since October 16.
According to information published by CNN, Interpol Headquarters in Lyon revealed that the DNA samples sent from Greece don't match any of the 606 people Interpol is looking for around the world.
After these results, Interpol emitted a yellow alert to try and identify the 5 or 6-year-old girl from among the 190 member countries who will check the girl's genetic data against their respective national databases.
The minor was found last Thursday in a gypsy camp in Greece during a police raid, and her blonde hair and green eyes immediately caught the attention of officers, since they suspect she could have been a victim of kidnapping, or a human and minors trafficking network.
Despite the Romani couple's, Christos Salis and Eleftheria Dimopoulou, claims that the girl was given to them by her biological mother, a Bulgarian woman who could not take care of the girl, Greek authorities have accused the couple of kidnapping and they remain detained in central Greece.
The Romani Couple "Maria" Lived With Used Forged Documents To Register Her As Their Own
"Maria's" case has reopened numerous missing children investigations in Greece which includes countries like France, the United States, Canada, and Poland, among others.
News agency Reuters informed last Monday, October 21 that Greece's Supreme Tribunal ordered an urgent investigation on the birth certificates expedited by the country in the last 6 years, after DNA tests proved that the couple "Maria" was living with are not her real parents".
This caused alarm in Greece, since authorities revealed that the detained couple used forged documents to register the child as their own, which could point to a human trafficking network.
"'Maria's' case can't be an isolated incident and this could have happened elsewhere in the world", the Greek Supreme Tribunal considered, quoted by Reuters.
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