He was released from prison in Cyprus and is now at home with the obligation to sign Gabriel Abutul Alon, the driver who with his maternal grandfather Shmuel Peleg is accused of the kidnapping of Eitan, the only survivor of the Mottarone tragedy. The former soldier belonging to the contractor agency “Black Water” was tracked down and blocked in a hotel in Limassol on 25 November on the basis of a European arrest warrant. Now the 50-year-old will have to wait for a new hearing scheduled for 2 December when the request for extradition to Italy will be discussed before the Cypriot judges.
The procedure – from what has been learned – must be concluded within 60 days with a further possible extension of 30 days. According to the investigations of the Pavia Mobile Squad, coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Mario Venditti and the prosecutor Valentina Di Stefano, Gabriel Abutbul Alon, on 11 September, took the child together with his grandfather Shmuel Peleg during one of the periodic meetings authorized by the court, in house of his paternal aunt in Travacò Siccomario (Pavia). From there the child was taken by car to Switzerland to Lugano to be boarded on a private plane hired in the previous days by Alon for 46,000 euros, which then landed in Tel Aviv.
On October 30, at the request of the prosecutors from Pavia, the investigating judge Pasquale Villani issued a custody order against them which was followed by the Mae for Alon. Peleg remains free, on whom an international arrest warrant hangs which, however, is unlikely to ever be carried out by the Israeli authorities.