PARIS, FRANCE:
FOR THE ATTENTION OF MONSIEUR CLAUDE LAVERDURE, CANADIAN AMBASSADOR IN FRANCE
In the matter Nathalie Gettliffe, an OPEN LETTER has just been sent to the Canadian Ambassador in Paris.
The author is the same person who requested the intervention of the High Commission on Human Rights in Geneva.
The Federal Government of Canada has only a few days to explain the subject of arbitrary arrest and detention.
Mister Claude Laverdure has previously intervened in person with the media , which is why it is now necessary for him to explain his silence on the role of his embassy in the sending of the document to Nathalie Gettliffe which served towards her entrapment.
A provisional agreement of international mediation had been composed in January 2006 by a Canadian mediator, employed by the Attorney General of British Colombia. In March and April, the parents of Maximilien and Joséphine maintained contact, with the ex-husband signing what appeared to be a perfectly credible document.
He acknowledged, without any constraint, that the custody of their children should be with their mother in France. He also committed to not pursuing the matter. All that remained was to set up the dates of vacation time that the children would spend with him in Canada.
He sent this document to his former spouse, at the end of March 2006, not directly, but through the Canadian Embassy in Paris. The Embassy ascertained the authenticity of the document and confirmed to Nathalie Gettliffe that she could confidently fly to Canada in April.
Nathalie had already requested a Canadian passport from the Embassy in March 2006 for this voyage. She also verified with the Supreme Court of British Columbia that there wasn't anything outstanding against her.
Why then, has Mister Claude Laverdure concealed these facts?
Despite the official "information" in France and in Canada,
it is contrary to the fact that this Anglo-French teacher of linguistics came to Canada only to support her thesis.
She did not come to Canada without announcing it, as her former spouse well knew, and she did not taunt authorities. Her first goal was to finalize, as she believed, the agreement between the parents. At the same time, she counted on supporting her thesis which would have saved her having to support it in France.
The affirmations of the ex-husband regarding a failure of the mediation in 2005, are in total contrast to the existing documents.
How it is that this man is at liberty to dress up the real facts, without an official intervention, when the mediation unfolded itself under the watchful eye of the judicial authorities of the two countries, and when he himself signed this same document?
The open letter also informs the Ambassador of the consequence of the repeated deprivations of inflicted sleep on Doctor Nathalie Gettliffe.
In fact, a jury panel from the university of British Colombia attended in prison so that Nathalie could defend her thesis.
The UBC panel was dazzled by her vivacity of spirit, despite several months of detention.
However, since the past few days, she is does not appear to be herself.
In effect, since the birth of baby Martin, she has been subjugated to a very particular treatment, especially for a young new mother: hourly, every night, she is awakened by the guards.
The result of more than a month of this form of sleep deprivation has not only deprived her of the benefit of "innocent until proven guilty", but it has caused her to plead guilty under duress.
The matter is applicable to the United Nations,concerning the working group on arbitary detention, torture and cruel and degrading treatment, in that France has violated the fundamental rights of the children and their mother, through its judicial decisions. It does not help matters that Canada now, in turn, adds fuel to the fire.
It is noteable that the High Commissioner of Human Rights is the Canadian, Louise Arbour, previously Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal.
As the Ambassador well knows, while a Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1996, this competent and determined person had established a report stigmatizing the violations of the rights of women prisoners in Canada. She would therefore appreciate the "progress" since then accomplished..
For more precise information, please address yourself to:
Louis Ripault(author of the Memorandum to the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights), so that all investigative journalists wanting to examine the facts may do so in this major case of French-Canadian judicial abuse concerning domestic violence which has been amplified by a sectarian environment.
louis.ripault@tiscali.fr
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