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Adoptions in Mali: complaint for “swindle” of nine French citizens classified without action

2020-07-08T20:45:37.396Z


The complaint filed for " swindle " and " breach of trust " by nine French people believing that their adoption in Mali was made under fraudulent conditions was closed without action, AFP learned Tuesday at the Paris prosecutor's office. Read also: Mali, the power besieged by the street The complaint concerned an adoption assistance association, Le Rayon de soleil de l'Enfant Foreigner (RSEE), a...


The complaint filed for " swindle " and " breach of trust " by nine French people believing that their adoption in Mali was made under fraudulent conditions was closed without action, AFP learned Tuesday at the Paris prosecutor's office.

Read also: Mali, the power besieged by the street

The complaint concerned an adoption assistance association, Le Rayon de soleil de l'Enfant Foreigner (RSEE), and a former local official, Danielle B., for alleged incidents between 1989 and 1996, concerning children born in Mali between 1984 and 1993. The acts qualified as “ fraud ” were prescribed and those qualified as “ conceal fraud ” and “ breach of trust ” were “ not sufficiently characterized, ” said the prosecution. .

The lawyers for the complainants, Me Noémie Saidi-Cottier and Me Joseph Breham, considered that the association and the former official had " tricked the Malian biological parents (...) and the French adoptive parents by a series of maneuvers that convinced the the first to sign an act constituting the final discharge of their parental authority over their child and the second to settle the adoption costs for a child they thought they were legally adopting in France ”.

Temporary adoptions

According to them, this allowed the French courts to pronounce full adoptions even though, according to the complainants, Malian courts had only authorized temporary adoptions, in accordance with a provision provided for in Malian law under the name of adoption-protection ”.

The biological parents therefore thought that these adoptions would only last while their children were studying and that they would return later. After a few months or years, according to the complaint, they lost contact with their child. In other cases, the child was directly presented as abandoned to the Malian justice, which pronounced their full adoption, then confirmed by French justice.

Suspicions around this association, another of its local branches and ex-collaborators of Danielle B. had already been relayed by Malian media in the 90s. In a press release published on its website, RSEE had indicated " Refutes (r) any participation (...) in trafficking in human beings " and said " reserves (r) the right to bring any action in order to preserve its rights and those of its members ".

Source: lefigaro

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