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Friday, February 8, 2002
Sara and mom reunited at last
Happiness reigns at Halifax airport
By ALISON AULD, CP
HALIFAX -- Clutching a small picture of her little girl, an elated Fabienne Brin relived the first exciting moments of being reunited with her daughter after a search that spanned three years and two continents.
Speaking to a crush of reporters at Halifax International Airport early yesterday, Brin described how six-year-old Sara kissed her on the cheek.
"I was quite apprehensive because she didn't leap into my arms," said a beaming Brin. "But she recognized me very quickly and we embraced.
"She wrote, 'I love you.' It was wonderful."
MOM PRODUCES POLAROID
Brin, 34, declined a request to bring her daughter before an imposing wall of reporters, photographers and cameramen. Instead, she held up a Polaroid of the smiling child and herself, snapped moments before in a private airport lounge.
Brin flew to Halifax from Montreal and was whisked by RCMP officers into the lounge, where she was reunited with her little girl.
The reunion came after police stopped the girl's father, Marc Habib Eghbal, outside Truro, N.S., on Wednesday.
FLYING TO FRANCE
Brin and her daughter later travelled to Montreal so they could board an Air France flight to Paris last night. Brin lives in Nantes, France, with her other daughter.
Asked if her daughter had changed much in the three years that had passed, a sobbing Brin said the differences were only slight.
Eghbal appeared briefly in Nova Scotia Supreme Court yesterday and was ordered held in custody until a Feb. 19 bail hearing.
He is being held under a provisional arrest warrant at the request of French authorities.
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