A controversial private detective from Poland has defended his decision to take a nine year-old girl from a Norwegian foster family in a ‘Hollywood-style kidnapping’. According to the Norwegian child welfare services, the girl, known as Nikola, had been neglected by her Polish parents, Arkadiuszem and Helena Rybka, who have lived in Norway for five years. Mr Rutkowski claims the Polish Embassy in Norway was told about the operation; a fact which the mission refutes. He also claims that the action was legal, as the girl came to her parents of her own free will, but charges may still be brought by the Norwegian child welfare services. The family travelled back to Poland by car, meaning the Norwegian police now have little leverage, according to the Rybkas’ lawyer Simen Tvedten.