Haddile have been cared for by her Swedish foster parents since she was 4 months old. She is now 2 1/2 and knows no other family than her Swedish family, her Swedish foster parents and her Swedish foster siblings. She speaks Swedish with an adorable southern dialect like any native. According to Swedish law, it is the best interest of the child that should govern the decision concerning her future. This may sound good, but really is no better then the person making the judgment. This since it pretty much can be construed to mean anything, which the vast record of violations of children's and families civil rights in Sweden is a grim record of.
In this case there are several factors that come into play. Haddile was deserted and left with a man, not her father, and he took the baby to a hospital, claiming the mother had left the baby with him. Haddile had signs of abuse, suffering from malnutrition and head injuries and probably brain damage.
The county in which Haddile lives, is paying the foster parents for their care, that's why it is also an economical question, although I'm convinced that the county would never admit to that. But as it happens it is the same county and its social services that will investigate and decide on where Haddile will live. Let us not forget, this is the same social services that wanted to send Haddile of to an orphanage in France not so long ago. Where they claimed she should be, instead of living with her foster parents in Sweden. They had to go back on that since they got public opinion protesting against it and Swedish media was all over it, which apparently also notified her biological relatives in Algeria about it. Also they can easily circumvent Swedish law since Haddile according to Swedish judicial logic or lack of it, the law doesn't apply to Haddile even though she is born in Sweden, because she doesn't have status as a legal permanent alien.
Haddile was born out of wedlock and Haddile's biological mother have reportedly received death threats against herself and Haddile because of this, and now the biological mother apparently want to have Haddile to live with her under those circumstances. Haddile doesn't speak a single word her biological parents language, from her perspective she has a swedish mother and a father and knows no other. We cannot know the underlying motives for the biological parents sudden wish to have Haddile. At one point they saw it as the best alternative to leave her with strangers when they were in Sweden and going back to Algeria. Now they are in Algeria and claim they want her back. What's to say they are not being threatened?
In Swedish media the parents are now refereed to as the Algerian couple. But when Haddile was born there was no couple, her biological mother was a single mother and Haddile was born out of wedlock. Now they claim it's a "couple" without explaining how that came about. The Swedish state department has a report that shows that children born out of wedlock in Algeria are traumatized in the Algerian society and made to suffer their entire life.
For me its a simple choice. Let her stay in Sweden. She will grow up in a loving family. She wont be traumatized and not made to suffer the rest of her life.
