On December 15, the French government announced the creation of a ministerial mission on illegal international adoptions. For decades, many children have been adopted under unclear conditions in France, but also in other European countries such as Belgium. Example with Coline Fanon, adopted at 11 months in Guatemala by a Belgian couple, at the end of the 1980s. Thirty years later, in search of her origins, she discovers that she has not been abandoned by her biological mother , but stolen from the hospital and sold under the guise of an international adoption after several months of confinement.
His birth mother was told at the hospital that the newborn baby was dead. The young woman tells her story in a book entitled ” Mom i am not dead », And his life with two identities since all his birth and adoption certificates have been falsified: Coline Fanon in Belgium and Mariela SR in Guatemala. Today she chairs the Lost Roots Foundation, which helps to reunite, if they wish, families who are victims of human trafficking.