It's another fine example of how our values, laws and good intentions - are being turned against us.
If the child'S wellbeing is the aergument, then I wonder why it is considered to be in its wellbeing to let it stay with a highly criminal father.
Family arguments are nowadays too often the argument not to send foreigners back to qwehre they cam from after they abuse massively the laws of hospitality, and bring crime or hostility to our homes.
My solutoion to the case in question?
First, I know how it is when a loved one gets killed and the offender gets a hilariously low penalty - my loved one was killed by a drunken ghostdriver longer time ago, he got a financial fee, a prison sentence on suspension of several months, and he got the driver'S licence back after 6 months, because, so it was argued, he needed it. In 1972, the prgenant sioster of my mother and her freeshly married huzsband also were wiped out by a drunken ghostdriver. He was considered to be limited criminally liable because he was drunk (yeah, people are not responsible for how much they drink), he payed a bit money, and got his licence back even before his also suspended prison sen tence was over. He then caused another accident some time later - again, drunk, with other seriously injured and paying the bill.
So, I have some idea of how the father here feels.
My solution. Get the kid and take it away from a criminal who is a known repetive criminal. Send him to prison for having tried to evade the responsi bility for the killing he caused, and after he served his term, send him back to the damn place were he came from, lifetime ban to ever return to Europe. Give the kid to a caring family who knows better what responsibility is, is not criminal, and due tpo being native casn oiffer it a realistric chance to fully integrate. THAT is what would be in the interest of the child.
Why are Europeans so eager to bring in and keep all the azzholes of the world even when the latter spit into their faces - are they still doing penance for the times of collonialism or inquisition, or what? Thiongs likie this is not what International Laws and Human Rights are for. Things like this story illustrate how willingly we accept to see them being abused and exploited.
A recent Swiss vote got it right, I think. Foreigners who become criminal - must leave, says the vote, even can lose previously gained citizenship. Wonderful healthy reason.
Of course, the EU calls it "populistic" and "rightwinged radicalism" - what else was to expect...?
