The French Ambassador to South Africa
Mr Denis Pietton
Embassy of the
Republic of France
250 Melk Street
Cnr Middle
Street
New Muckleneuk,
Pretoria 0181
28.02.08
Open Letter to President Nicolas
Sarkozy in regards the practices of the German
Jugendamt
Dear Sir,
On the occasion of the French
Presidential visit to South African I take the opportunity to address President
Nicolas Sarkozy through your Embassy in regards to the situation in Europe
regarding international child abduction to Germany and the role played by the
German Jugendamt in violating the fundamental freedoms and human rights of the
victim children and their entire foreign families.
In particular I write to approach
President Nicolas Sarkozy while he is here in South Africa for his assistance as
my two South African born children were abducted over 12 years ago to Germany
and since then all contact to them has been forbidden by the German
Regime. On the 14 July 2001 I joined Olivier Karrer a French citizen (of
the Human Rights Organisation CEED International based in Paris) in Berlin
Germany to stage a hunger strike in protest of the practices of the past being
practised by the German Regime whereby foreign children are routinely
stolen in a program of state sponsored child abduction to
Germany.(Lebensborn). Although we brought the matter to the attention of the
entire German nation including the German Chancellor, although we were met by
senior German politicians and members of the German administration, although
these persons made numerous promises to rectify the matter, not one of their
promises has to this day been honoured. Not One! In fact I and Olivier Karrer
have been purposely, deliberately, systematically victimised by officials
of the German Regime because we dared to bring the problem into the public
arena. We have both been denied justice because we spoke out against injustice
and human rights violations being committed by the German
Regime.
In desperation in December 2006 CEED
International brought the matter to the attention of the petitions committee of
the European Parliament in the form of a Petition. We spellt out clearly
the role of the German Jugendamt and the nazi methods of the past that are
employed to steal the children of , to demonise and to intimidate the victim
foreign parents of child abduction to Germany.
As President Nicolas Sarkozy will be
taking over the Presidency of the European Parliament as of June 2008 for six
months I have high expectations of him. My request to him is that he do all in
his power to find a solution to the German Problem during his Presidency that
will be in line with European thinking and practice. A solution that is in line
with international thinking and practice. The practices of the past that are
still being routinely and systematically practised in Germany can not be allowed
to continue in this century. I request that he put as much pressure to bear on
the German regime as it requires to force them to change their totally
unacceptable ways of the past that are still being practised within the heart of
the Modern Democratic Europe, within the structures of the European
Union.
Yours faithfully
Michael Hickman
7 Agnes Street
Mount Moreland
Durban 4345
Tel: +27820612593
CC. The South African President Thabo Mbeki