Question juridique clé
Whether the child's return to Italy should be ordered under the Hague Child Abduction Convention.
Solution extraite
Yes. The removal was wrongful and the mother did not establish a grave risk or intolerable situation under Art. 13(1)(b) HCCH 1980.
Motifs extraits
The child's habitual residence was Italy, custody was shared under Italian law, and objections based on separation from the mother or half-brother, and on the mother's own situation in Italy, went to the merits of custody or were insufficiently substantiated.