Romanian-born victims demand judicial investigation

On October 5, 2022, the Racines & Dignité group filed complaints with the public prosecutor for the opening of a judicial investigation with the main actors who participated in our forced exodus without the consent of our biological families. We are publishing the letter addressed to Mrs. BECCUAU so that our request is taken into account in the face of these crimes against humanity.

October 5, 2022

For the attention of Mrs. Laure BECCUAU, Public Prosecutor of Paris

Madam Prosecutor,

We have the honor to inform you that we are a group of victims born in Romania since the 1960s. We created the group Racines&Dignité in order to denounce the establishment of a child trade and the violations of children's rights to which we have been subjected.

We are :

• From legalized trafficking within the framework of international adoption,
• Removed from our country and our loved ones by NGOs for short-term hospitalizations with medical visas. We never returned to our biological families in Romania, the Romanian authorities declared us missing. The file is classified secret.

Consequently, our group wishes to file a complaint regarding these facts.

We request that a judicial inquiry be opened with investigations into the main actors who participated in our forced exodus without the consent of our biological families, as well as the role of the State.
In particular, we want to draw your attention to the NGO Solidarité Enfants Roumains Abandonnés (SERA France) which brought about a hundred sick Romanian children to France via short-term medical visas. Most of them never returned to their country of origin, others arrived without the consent of their biological families.

We are attaching the attached list of these children that we have recently obtained.

The children were placed in foster homes, adopted or placed in ASE. In 2007 the Romanian authorities launched a search and declared them missing. It is urgent that the files of these children, and the reports of SERA, be seized by Care France which took responsibility for them after their merger with SERA France in 2003.

In this letter you will find additional documents justifying the organization of this crime against humanity:

• Our individual victim files which explain the trafficking they were subjected to
• A file that explains the organization of trafficking and the disappearance of children in Romania with official documents and reports on a USB key. On this key is the SERA file with information on 22 children who arrived with a medical visa and information on the adoption of 34 children in 1991.
• The SERA file with the action program in favor of abandoned children in Romania presented by Mr. François de Combret and Mr. Renaud Vignal (French Ambassador from 1990 to 1993).
• The Convention between France and Romania of 1990. The collection of treaties and international agreements or filed and registered in the directory at the UN secretariat (pages 89 to 111).
• Our press release on Médiapart.

On September 29, 2022 in Geneva, the UN takes a position on illegal adoptions. Previously described as fraud, they are now recognized as crimes against humanity. A group of experts urges States to take measures to prevent and eradicate these illicit practices.
We thank you for considering this letter with its documents as a complaint.

Pending your response to this letter,

Please accept, Madam Public Prosecutor of Paris, the expression of our highest consideration.

The Roots&Dignity group

Email: grouperacinesetdignite@protonmail.com