A Roma couple are in court charged with abducting a mystery blonde, blue-eyed girl in Greece.
The pair - named in local papers as Hristos Salis, 39, and Eleftheria Dimopoulou, 40 - were escorted into the back of a courthouse in Larissa from a police van.
Their friends and family waited at the front of the building, with reporters and TV satellite crews. It is understood that no press are allowed into the court.
The couple's lawyer Matetta Palavra was surrounded by journalists as he went to visit his clients in holding cells at the back of the courthouse.
"You will leave us alone for now, we have a difficult road ahead of us," he told them.
Asked by one reporter what stage the case was at, he replied: "We will see the prosecutor at noon."
The pair were taken by police van into the back of the courthouse The mystery girl - known as Maria - was discovered living in a Gypsy camp near the Greek town of Farsala on Wednesday after a raid by police looking for drugs and weapons.
British police say there is no link between her case of and that of missing boy Ben Needham, who was 21 months old when he vanished on the Greek island of Kos in 1991.
A prosecutor who accompanied police on the raid thought it odd that Maria did not look like her darker-skinned "parents".
DNA tests later confirmed the couple are not her biological parents.
The pair claim they were given the child by a Bulgarian woman who was unable to look after her, two weeks after she was born on January 31 2009.
The couple are appearing at a court in Larissa Greek authorities have put out a worldwide appeal to help identify the youngster and find her real family.
Maria is being cared for in Athens by the Greek charity Smile Of The Child, and is said to be "doing well".
Charity spokesman Panagiotis Pardalis told Sky News that Maria is still in hospital and waiting for medical examinations to be completed.
"She is talking to hospital staff and seems happy, and is playing with staff and showing normal child behaviour," he said.
The Roma couple claim Maria is four years old. But medical and dental tests have confirmed she is a year or two older than that.
Maria seen in a family video as a toddler The little girl will be transferred to one of the charity's homes when she leaves hospital.
He said the charity has been inundated with more than 8,000 calls about the girl from people in the US, Scandinavia, Australia, South Africa and other countries.
A few of the calls had specific details and have been forwarded to police.
Neighbours in Farsala's ramshackle Roma camp said Maria's real father had come to look for her soon after she was taken away by police.
Babis Dimitriou, chairman of the local Roma community, told The Daily Telegraph: "There was a Bulgarian husband and wife who were working around Greece in temporary jobs, who used to stay here sometimes.
Maria was found in a Roma camp in Farsala "At one point they left the girl to be raised by the family here in the village.
"The family raised the child as if it was their own, although her father would come back every now and then to see her. The last time he visited was only five days ago, after the arrests had been made.
"All the other Roma here were telling the Bulgarian man to explain to the police that the girl was his, but he has now disappeared."
His account was backed by other residents, the paper reported.
The Roma community in Farsala is said to be anxious about the world-wide media attention the case is attracting.
In a country already devastated by economic crisis, the Roma in the camp make a living selling fruit, carpets, blankets, baskets and shoes at local markets.
They are already considered by some to be social outcasts, thieves and beggars, and now they are worried they will be wrongfully stigmatised as kidnappers and child traffickers.
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