Former Qatari princess Kasia Gallanio was found dead at her home in Spain. At 45, she was the ex-wife of Abdelaziz bin Khalifa Al-Thani, 73, and uncle of the emir of Qatar, and the couple had been fighting for 10 years for the guardianship of their three daughters (two 17 years old). -twins of age and another of 15 years).
Police discovered Gallanio’s body on Sunday in a tourist apartment in Marbella after the youngest daughter contacted authorities and explained that she had not been able to speak to her mother for several days. According to El País, the first information collected by the authorities points to a drug overdose, and no signs of violence were found. Authorities are still awaiting autopsy results.
According to The Independent, Kasia Gallanio would face problems of alcoholism and depression, motivated by the fact that his youngest daughter, 15, remains with Abdelaziz bin Khalifa Al-Thani in Paris. Also according to the Spanish newspaper, the French justice had recently denied one of his requests to maintain guardianship of the teenordering a psychological evaluation of the former princess.
In April of this year, one of the eldest daughters of the former princess, 17, claimed to have been sexually abused by her father between the ages of 9 and 15. The charges were denied by Abdelaziz bin Khalifa Al-Thani, but led the Paris prosecutor’s office to open an investigation for sexual assault. Abdelaziz bin Khalifa Al-Thani has lived in the French capital since 1992.
In a recent interview with Mundo de Mujeres, quoted by the Daily Mail, Gallanio explained that the two 17-year-old daughters chose to live with him, having led their father to cut ties with the twins as a form of punishment.
The minor is not allowed to talk to me, which makes me very sad because she receives many things from her father, which is almost manipulation and blackmail. It is as if a part of my body had disappeared, “concluded the former princess.
The two eldest daughters of Kasia Gallanio are in Spain with the former princess’s lawyer, while the youngest continues to live with her father in Paris.
Source: Observadora
