{"id":188110,"date":"2013-02-12T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/french-couple-found-guilty-of-darfur-orphans-hoax\/"},"modified":"2013-02-12T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T23:00:00","slug":"french-couple-found-guilty-of-darfur-orphans-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/french-couple-found-guilty-of-darfur-orphans-hoax","title":{"rendered":"French couple found guilty of &#8216;Darfur orphans&#8217; hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a trial last December in Paris, a French couple was found guilty for attempting to smuggle 103 children in 2007 to France for adoption under the allegations they were orphans from Darfur.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Breteau and his girlfriend Emilie Lelouch, who ran an NGO called <em>Arche de Zo\u00e9<\/em>, were given a two-year sentence in jail by a French court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>They were arrested by the Chadian police at the Abeche airport in the east of the country while trying to board an airplane with the children.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects claimed to want to save the \u201corphans\u201d from the deteriorating situation in Darfur, but as it appeared, the children were from Chad and had at least one living parent.<\/p>\n<p>Four other defendants were given six month and one year suspended sentences, and the NGO was fined 100.000 euros and dissolved according to Tuesday\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Breteau and Lelouch were said in court to have exploited families who took part in internet discussion forums on adoption and suggested that that was a possibility in the long term, RFI reports.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the arrest, six French citizens were sentenced to eight years of forced labor in Chad for kidnapping and were required to pay 6.3 million euros to the children\u2019s families. However, they were pardoned by the Chadian president and sent back to France in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><em>Radio Dabanga file photo<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Related<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiodabanga.org\/node\/39213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French aid workers trial begins in Paris<\/a> (3 December 2012)<!--break--><\/p>\n<div class=\"sws_supernormalaction\"><button on=\"tap:superwebshare-lightbox\" class=\"superwebshare_normal_button1 superwebshare-button-large superwebshare-button-square superwebshare_prompt superwebshare_button_svg\" style=\"color:#ffffff;background-color: #d52631;\" ><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"superwebshare-svg\"  fill=\"currentColor\" viewBox=\"0 0 1000 1000\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"0\"><path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M789.86,323.67c91.79,0,164.25-72.46,164.25-164.25S881.64,0,789.86,0S625.6,72.46,625.6,164.25c0,4.83,0,14.49,0,24.15L306.76,371.98c-24.15-24.15-57.97-33.82-96.62-33.82c-91.79,0-164.25,72.46-164.25,164.25s72.46,164.25,164.25,164.25c38.65,0,72.46-14.49,96.62-33.82L625.6,821.26c0,9.66,0,14.49,0,19.32c0,86.96,72.46,159.42,159.42,159.42s159.42-72.46,159.42-159.42s-67.63-159.42-154.59-159.42c-33.82,0-67.63,9.66-96.62,33.82L374.4,526.57c0-9.66,0-19.32,0-24.15s0-14.49,0-24.15l318.84-188.41C717.39,314.01,751.21,323.67,789.86,323.67z\" \/><\/svg><span>Share article<\/span><\/button><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a trial last December in Paris, a French couple was found guilty for attempting to smuggle 103 children in 2007 to France for adoption under the allegations they were orphans from Darfur. Eric Breteau and his girlfriend Emilie Lelouch, who ran an NGO called Arche de Zo\u00e9, were given a two-year sentence in jail by a French court on Tuesday.They were arrested by the Chadian police at the Abeche airport in the east of the country while trying to board an airplane with the children.The suspects claimed to want to save the \u201corphans\u201d from the deteriorating situation in Darfur, but as it appeared, the children were from Chad and had at least one living parent.Four other defendants were given six month and one year suspended sentences, and the NGO was fined 100.000 euros and dissolved according to Tuesday\u2019s ruling.Breteau and Lelouch were said in court to have exploited families who took part in internet discussion forums on adoption and suggested that that was a possibility in the long term, RFI reports.At the time of the arrest, six French citizens were sentenced to eight years of forced labor in Chad for kidnapping and were required to pay 6.3 million euros to the children\u2019s families. However, they were pardoned by the Chadian president and sent back to France in 2008.Radio Dabanga file photoRelated: French aid workers trial begins in Paris (3 December 2012)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>French couple found guilty of &#039;Darfur orphans&#039; hoax - Dabanga Radio TV Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/french-couple-found-guilty-of-darfur-orphans-hoax\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"French couple found guilty of &#039;Darfur orphans&#039; hoax - Dabanga Radio TV Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Following a trial last December in Paris, a French couple was found guilty for attempting to smuggle 103 children in 2007 to France for adoption under the allegations they were orphans from Darfur. 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