A legal battle has broken out for
custody of Eitan Biran, the five-year-old Israeli boy who was
the sole survivor of the Mottarone mountain cable-car disaster
in Piedmont in May.
Eitan's parents, great grandparents and two-year-old brother
were among the 14 victims of the disaster.
Eitan, who moved to Italy with his parents in 2018, has been put
into the care of his paternal aunt, Aya Biran.
The boy's Israeli-based family are unhappy about this.
Ronen Dlayahu, a lawyer representing this side of the family,
announced in a news conference that the boy's maternal aunt,
Gali Peri, has launched legal proceedings to have custody of
him.
"Eitan is being held hostage," the lawyer said.
Peri said that "Eitan was taken away by a family that did not
know him, that had not been close to him in any way previously".
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