Baptism ceremony of the Algerian girl Safia this Sunday

The ceremony of baptism of the Algerian girl Safia (Sophie), will be held this Sunday in a church in Paris

• The ceremony of baptism of the Algerian girl Safia (Sophie), will be held this Sunday in a church in Paris, according to statements by the French national Jacques Scharbook to the newspaper “Le Monde.”
      
  The seven-year-old girl had been given back to (the alleged father) Scharbook after a long conflict between the French and the family of his deceased Algerian wife around the child.
  
  
      The child spent three months in a centre for children in Oran, from the time she was found by the Algerian police and when she returned to her alleged father. “She learned French, which she speaks perfectly,” said Scharbook, visibly moved.
  
      Installed in 1984 in Arzew, near Oran, Mr. Scharbook married Farah Belhoucine in March 2001 according to Muslim ritual, and civil in September at La Seyne-sur-Mer in the south-eastern France, where Sophie was born, who has, according to her father, the only French nationality.
  
      After the death of the mother in 2005 in a road accident, the child had been assigned, the time of the funeral to the family of her mother in Oran, who refused to give her to her father.
  
      After three years of legal proceedings, the Supreme Court of Algeria said in February 2008 that Sophie should go with her father.
  
  The father, who deceived the Algerian justice system by claiming to be a Muslim, has also denied DNA tests to prove paternity.
  
  According to an official document of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, of which Ennahar holds a copy, the French national Jacques Scharbook is not on official records proving his entry into Islam, after an investigation by the Ministry of Religious Affairs dated on 14 January 2007 as part of assisting the court to prove the paternity of Jacques Scharbook.
  
  "I have all my time to correct things. After four years of waiting," said Mr. Scharbook to the newspaper “Le Monde,” smiling. Among ongoing projects is the baptism of Sophie. Francis Heude Should be her godfather.
  
  Ennahar / Amel Lakel