A few days ago, the prosecutor's office in Florence ordered the search of 25 locations of MISA branches in Bologna, Florence, Milan, San Benedetto del Tronto and Bari. The police descended not only on the yoga centers, but also on the homes of those involved, seizing computers, diaries and video recordings. The investigation would have been triggered by the complaints made by at least two possible victims of Bivolaru's disciples, following the experiences they had within the organization.

"Il secolo XIX" recorded (December 10, 2012) that the investigators interviewed 10 witnesses - possible injured parties. They are women and men between 20-30 years old who, according to the indictment, would have been brought into a state of psychological submission and then convinced to indulge in violent sexual practices, filmed without their knowledge. According to the teachings of the MISA courses, sexual practices are "necessary for spiritual evolution".

Although initially there were 18 suspects, the same source mentions that at the moment there are 20 people investigated in the investigation, students and instructors of the searched centers. Investigations are ongoing to determine the destination of the video recordings made without the knowledge or consent of the participants. Among the hypotheses is the fact that the respective films would have followed the same path as those from Miss Shakti 2001 and 2002, namely the circuit of films for adults.

Roberto Zambrenti who, together with Daniela Trogu, coordinates the Atman Yoga Center in Genoa, did not want to comment either on the articles that appeared recently in the Italian press, or on the complaints and criticisms brought to MISA on the www.exmisa.org forum. But he told the Italian press that he considered the investigation by the prosecutor's office in Florence to be unfounded: "It is the faithful copy of other judicial attacks that this school endures in different countries: it happened recently in Finland, and now it is happening here in Italy."  

The MISA press office stated as early as Friday, December 7, 2012, in a statement published on the sect's official website, that the investigations in Italy would be based on the complaints of "a chef of Romanian origin who lives in Italy and who wanted to take revenge because he was expelled from the Romanian yoga school".

From: Nigel Cantwell [mailto:cantabene@gmail.com]

Sent: Mittwoch, 17. Juni 2015 19:20

To: Arun Dohle

Subject: Re: CRC - Hague

Arun

On Nov 7, 2015, at 5:26 PM, Arun Dohle wrote:

Dear Susan Bissell,

i m still eagerly awaiting a reply from you.

Given the fact, that I as a European taxpayer contribute to the funding UNICEF receives from the European Commission, I wonder how my taxpayers money is being used.

Meanwhile a serious dutch TV Program has exposed the devastating effect of polices which are in line with the Hague Adoption Convention approach of the subsidiarity principle, which is conflicting with the CRC and at odds with the opinion of the independent panel.

In 1997 the European Council decided that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) was to be
considered inseparable of the EU Treaty and thus was placed on the acquis list as legal basis for the accession
monitoring and negotiations under the Copenhagen Criteria. Article 24 - The rights of the child - of the EU
Charter on Fundamental Rights is also based on the UNCRC.

There is also another international convention, the Hague Adoption Convention (1993). This private law
convention, however, is not part of the acquis. Although it was meant to prevent child trafficking, in practice, in
Romania, it created a demand-driven market in children. Behind this legal market, all kind of abuses are hidden,
such as corruption, abuse of power and the infiltration of pedophiles.
The European Commission and the European Parliament, at the time (2000), spoke with one voice in
condemning this market, and requested from Romania the full respect of the UN Convention on the Rights of
the Child. Especially as concerns article 21b of the UNCRC, which limits intercountry adoption as a last resort
– after all local care options such as foster care, adoption, residential care and any other suitable manner of care
(the so-called subsidiarity principle).

It then appeared that those with vested interests in intercountry adoption (United States, Israel, France, Italy,
Spain and the Scandinavian countries) interpreted children’s rights in a different manner. While these countries
respect the UNCRC, article 21b, for their own children (except the US which did not ratify the UNCRC), they
apply the Hague adoption Convention’s version of subsidiarity for countries from where they adopt children.
The Hague Adoption Convention’s interpretation of subsidiarity conflicts with article 21b of the UNCRC, as it
does not consider foster care and residential care as suitable care, but only as short term temporary options.
Instead the adoption proponents see three options: return of the child to the children’s family, national adoption,
intercountry adoption. Strict time limits for the first two options then automatically lead to the availability of
children for intercountry adoption. If families cannot take back their children from residential care or foster care
timely, their parental rights are terminated and children become “adoptable”.

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Date: 2009-10-08 20:44 GMT+02:00

Subject: verkeerde interpretatie

To: Roelie Post