The children of a Moroccan Olympic champion say they fled from his house and were smuggled¹ out of the country with the help of Norwegian diplomats².

一位摩洛哥奥运冠军的孩子称，他们从家里逃出来并且在挪威外交官的帮助下偷渡离开摩洛哥。

Khalid Skah said the children had been manipulated by their mother

The case has sparked an international row争吵，划船, with Morocco demanding that Norway put its diplomats on trial.

The children of Khalid Skah, who won the 10,000m gold at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, have gone on Norwegian TV to say they left of their own free will.

Mr Skah says they were kidnapped but Norway denies it was directly involved.

Tarik, who is 13, and Selma, 16, told the Norwegian news channel TV2 Nyhetskanalen they ran away from their father's house, in July 2009, after he became increasingly strict and locked them in their rooms.

They contacted their Norwegian mother, who had come to Morocco with the family in 2006, but left in 2007 when the relationship broke down.

She got in touch the Norwegian embassy, which arranged for the children to be picked up from the streets of the capital, Rabat, and taken to the Norwegian ambassador's residence, where they stayed until they could be smuggled out of the country on a yacht游艇，快艇 bound for Spain.

"It was our choice to flee," Tarik said.

"We weren't allowed to live a normal life, we weren't allowed to go to school," said Selma.

'Off-duty' commandos

Mr Skah, contacted in Rabat by the French news agency AFP法新社, accused the Norwegian embassy of "kidnapping" his children and helping³ his estranged⁴不和的，疏远的 wife, Anne Cecilie Hopstock, take them out of the country "illegally".

He deplored⁵哀叹，谴责 the fact that they had appeared on television, saying they had been "manipulated by the Norwegian government and their mother".

Norway admitted on Monday that one of its diplomats had helped hide the children, and two members of its special forces had taken them out of Morocco.

But it said the two commandos突击队 were "off-duty", and on holiday at the time, and denied that Norway was involved directly in the smuggling⁶走私.

Morocco has accused Norwegian officials of breaking the Vienna Convention on diplomatic activity.

Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi Fihri, said: "The Norwegian embassy gave itself the right to... mete⁷ out its own justice on the territory of a sovereign state独立国，主权国 in a private affair and beyond all rules and ethics⁸."

He said all the diplomats involved must be put on trial.