International adoption: falsified documents and abused parents in Mali


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INVESTIGATION (2/3). The Rayon de Soleil association is the target of complaints from nine French people adopted in Mali. A judicial investigation has been opened for “concealment of fraud”.





By Emilie Trevert

Marie, adopted in Mali in 1989 via RDSEE, discovers a photo of her biological brother, Benoît, whom she did not know existed. On 26/9/2021, Bamako, Mali.
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“DWhat are you complaining about? You are better off in France than in your country! Marie Marre has already heard these kinds of remarks when she sought to know her origins and then discovered her true story in Mali. This energetic 30-year-old does not beat around the bush: “I was adopted illegally in Mali. »

It was pregnant with her first child, in 2018, that she consulted her adoption file for the first time. There, she then comes across a sum of “little details that put (him) on the alert”: on one document, she was born in Ségou, on another in Bamako; his dates of birth are different; on paper, it is even rejuvenated; in other places, there are erasures, names erased roughly with the corrector… “Things a…




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