By Prensa Latina
Paris : Prosecutor Jean-Jacques Bosc requested the court to sentence six French people to eight years in prison for trying to transfer 103 Chadian children to this country for adoption.
Sources of Creteil Correctional Court, in the outskirts of Paris, told press the sentence of eight years of hard labor, announced in Chad, should become eight years of imprisonment here.
This is the second judicial process for the members of the NGO Zoe’s Ark, who were tried in Chad for the same crime, and were also accused of swindling the people to whom they had offered the children.
Four of the six “Illuminated,” as they are called, attended the court hearing.
The six Zoe’s Ark members were arrested in October in Abeche, eastern Chad, when they were ready to leave for France on a rented Spanish aircraft, with the 103 children onboard.
It is not a matter of holding a new trial, the prosecutor told the judges, explaining that a second trial would not be allowed, because it would violate international agreements.