Qatargate: Eva Kaili hugs her daughter – The first meeting since the day she was imprisoned

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The child was accompanied to the prison where Kaili is being held by her father and the little one’s grandfather

The chance to meet her two years old MEP Eva Kaili, who remains in custody in Haren women’s prison in Brussels, had a daughter today, accused of leading participation in the well-known Qatargate scandal, which is shaking the European Parliament.

At 17:20 Greek time, her father, Alexandros Kailis, crossed the threshold of the prison accompanying his granddaughter for her first meeting with her mother since the day Ms. Kailis was arrested and detained.

Mrs. Kaili had testified through her lawyers request to be allowed to meet her two-year-old daughter, which was accepted by the Belgian judicial authorities and this afternoon this meeting became a reality.

Kaili’s meeting with her child is scheduled for the afternoon and is expected to last for three hours.

The reason she had not met with her daughter is said to be the protocol which applies to the Belgian prisons in which he is held. According to this, in order for a mother to be able to see her child, the prisons where she is detained must be attended by three employees, a child psychologist, a social worker and a correctional officer of the detention center.

However, the prisons where Eva Kaili is held have only been operating for three months and there are not enough employees.

Marie Arena’s relations with “colleague and friend” Pancheri and Kaili’s “involvement”

In the relations of the Belgian MEP Marie Arena with Antonio Pancheri was the focus of yesterday’s article of the newspaper “Le Soir”.

In particular, he notes that “the former MEP Antonio Panzeri and his successor as head of the human rights subcommittee, Marie Arena, are said to have had at least 389 phone calls between mid-December 2021 and mid-September 2022, according to court documents seen by Soir and Repubblica.

They are a little less than the contacts of the Italian former MEP with his first “confidant”, Francesco Giorgi (437 contacts in the same period), a former assistant of Panzeri and alleged accomplice in the case of interference and corruption in the European Parliament”.

“Antonio Panzeri was a colleague in the previous term, he is also a friend,” Marie Arena answered on December 11 to Soir, which asked her about her relationship with the president and founder of the NGO Fight Impunity, the article adds. Soir points out that the Belgian MEP now prefers to talk about “professional friendship”.

The newspaper goes on to say that “to this long-time friend of Antonio Pancheri is turned by Eva Kaili on December 9, worried that she cannot contact either her partner or the former MEP.”

“First I tried to call Panzeri – who only speaks Italian – but I couldn’t find him,” Eva Kaili told investigators shortly after her arrest, according to Soir.

“I then tried to contact Mark Tarabella and Marie Arena. They replied that they did not know why Pancheri did not answer. Pancheri doesn’t speak English, I prefer to communicate with him through his friends,” Ms. Kaili reportedly added according to the specific article.

“Yes, Eva Kaili called me,” confirms Marie Arena, notes Soir. “I was at a conference at UCL and I couldn’t understand what he was saying. I just told her to keep calm and wait for things to clear up. (…) I guess she panicked and approached the Belgian members of her group,” he added.

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