How the fear that she might lose custody of her baby forced a woman from Norway, one of the world's richest countries, to flee to considerably poorer Poland. Europe
In late summer 2017, Garmo applied for asylum in Poland. Officials spent months considering her case before finally announcing an astonishing ruling last December: Poland had decided to recognize the Norwegian woman and her daughter as being in need of protection. Their homeland, the Polish authorities ruled, had violated Garmo's human rights, which obligated Poland to accept them.
What makes Garmo's case so exceptional? Even if the country isn't a member of the European Union, a person from Norway doesn't normally have to apply for asylum in Poland to be allowed to stay there legally. As members of the European Economic Area, Norwegian citizens enjoy freedom of movement to live and work in the EU.
ZEIT ONLINE is in possession of a substantial number of documents relating to the case. They show how Garmo's decision to leave Norway ultimately escalated into a diplomatic crisis. The conflict essentially focuses on a single question: Does a child's well-being take precedence over traditional family unity? Garmo and her daughter are at the center of that debate.
Garmo is a 37-year-old with a face that makes her look far younger. She can come across as serious and thoughtful one minute only to seem as guileless as a teenager the next. Today, two years after leaving Norway, she lives with her daughter just outside Warsaw. It is an area of houses with low ceilings and pine tree-lined streets. Just in front of her front door is a covered sandbox with a bicycle, complete with a child seat for her daughter, standing next to it.
"Her right to live in Norway was taken away from her," Garmo says, claiming that she was driven out of her homeland and that the Norwegian state had blackmailed and threatened her and left her no other choice but to leave."Norway may seem like the perfect democracy," Garmo says."But it's not."
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