The Milan prosecutor's office changes its opinion: «The Aibi body has not committed irregularities»

Inquiry into adoptions in the Congo: the District Anti-Mafia Directorate denies the previous head of Boccassini and declares the "total groundlessness of the crime report". Imminent filing for accusations against Marco Griffini and his family. The child's lawyer abandons the hearing and announces an appeal.

Marco Griffini, 71, wife Irene Bertuzzi, 69, and their daughter Valentina Griffini, 36, respectively president, managing director and head of operations in Africa of the government authorized "Aibi - Amici dei bambini", according to the Milan prosecutors have not committed crimes in the adoption procedures with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Last Friday, during the hearing in the council chamber before the judge for preliminary investigations Sofia Fioretta, the public prosecutor of the Milan anti-mafia district directorate, Giovanna Cavalleri, declared by surprise the "total groundlessness of the crime" and reiterated the request filing the investigation against AIBI, which was registered in the register in 2017 for a series of alleged serious events including criminal association, aiding illegal immigration and corruption.

The statement put on record by the prosecutor of the prosecution is a novelty in the proceedings: in the investigative proceedings signed by the former head of the Antimafia, Ilda Boccassini, by the public prosecutor Paolo Storari and by Cavalleri himself and in the documents with which the Rome Public Prosecutor had transmitted the file for territorial jurisdiction in Milan had never been found the total groundlessness of the crime, if anything the opposite.

March 4, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Denmark’s minister for Children and Social Affairs has authored a government proposal making forced adoptions that would create definitive separations between children and birth parents easier for authorities.

Mai Mercado said in an interview with Berlingske that the biological parents’ rights would not be affected by the new rules presented to the Danish parliament on Tuesday. The conservative politician claims that the proposal would cut red tape and legal requirements during the process to provide faster outcomes and significantly reduce costs for municipal services.

“This is all with the child’s interest foremost,” she said.

Currently, when a local authority decides that biological parents will “likely never” be able to take care of a child, a request is submitted to the Social Appeals Board (“Ankestryrelsen,” or “social anchorage council”) as well as a national government body (the state administration, “Statsforvaltningen”). Both must green-light the adoption for it to go through.

A child may not be directly placed with its future adoptive parents until the procedure is completed. In the meantime, a foster family takes care of the child.

Who: Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa

Nadeem Karkutli, Manager, EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis, the 'Madad Fund,' European Commission

Jad Rahbani, renown composer and producer

Juliette Touma, UNICEF Regional Chief of Communications, Middle East and North Africa

When: 11 March, 2019, 11:00AM (GMT +2)

A global story about the adopted Danish-Ethiopian teenage girl Amy, who decides to reclaim her lost identity and fight against the adoption system.

Ethiopian Amy left her home when she was 9 years old and declared fit to be adopted by a Danish family. But Amy never felt at home in Denmark, and now she is dreaming of having the authorities' decision reversed, so she can return home to her biological family. The film about her follows five dramatic years from when she is 13 to when she turns 18, and is an intimate tale about the systematic violation of children's rights that take place in the international adoption system - seen through the eyes of a teenager. Amy has a burning desire to repair the family ties that were broken from one day to the next almost 10 years ago. But Amy does not only miss her mother and sisters, she also misses her language and her culture. 'Amy's Will' is a powerful, personal story of a single woman's determination to decide about her young life, but also a story about what role culture and biological origins play in our identity.

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Thu. 21/03

Laura is the epitome of the phrase ‘a mother’s love.’ The former Washington, D.C. resident decided to move to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia a few years ago. She decided to move to allow her now 10-year old daughter to connect with her culture and to find her birth family.

We spoke with Laura via email about her move and her life as a mom abroad.

Travel Noire: Why did you make the move abroad initially?

Laura: Before becoming a mother I lived in Nigeria, France, and St. Thomas. I had always planned on living overseas again with kids because I think it helps children develop empathy and international mindedness. Naomi and I moved to Manila, Philippines when she was three years old. It was a fantastic opportunity for me professionally, and it allowed us to do extensive travel around Asia which would not have been possible or affordable from the United States. By age five, she had already visited ten countries and lived on three continents!

TN: How old was your daughter when you adopted her?

Having booked her dream vacation to Sri Lanka complete with an Ayurvedic retreat, Olivia Ramya Tanner (above), who grew up in a Zurich suburb, thought it might be fun to use the opportunity to find her birth mother.

This was back in April 2016. The Swiss woman who works for an IT company hired a private investigator to do some advance work. Tanner's sister, Géraldine, who's five years younger and also adopted, joined the search for her own mother.

Two days before they departed, the PI called. He had found Géraldine's mother. A reunion was arranged. He couldn't find any information on Tanner's birth mother, though, so Tanner decided to stop by Ratnapura General Hospital, where she was born, to see what she could find out.

That's when she learned her birth certificate was a fake.

"They told me I wasn't registered there and that the birth certificate wasn't even real," said Tanner. "I was numb."

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From left to right: Peter Charles, Maria Venezia (Venice) Sto.Tomas, Amelie Saupe, Alice Kahane, Claudia Koch, Seema Mundackal, Martin Essl, Martin Habacher, Michael Fembek, Michael Pichler, Karin Praniess-Kastner, Doris Neuwirth, Thomas H. Butcher, Marina Vaughan-Spitzy, Wilfried Kainz

MARTIN ESSL

Essl Foundation, Klosterneuburg/Austria – Founder of the Essl Foundation

MICHAEL FEMBEK

Essl Foundation, Vienna/Austria – Director of the Zero Project

Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein lived almost identical lives and followed the exact same career paths - without knowing the other existed.

Two identical twins have told how they were deliberately separated at birth as part of the same vile social experiment that saw a set of triplets ripped apart.

The story of Robert Shafran, Edward Galland and David Kellman, who had no idea they were triplets until a chance encounter at college, was told this week in Channel 4 documentary Three Identical Strangers.

They had been placed in three different homes less than 100 miles apart after prominent child psychologist Dr Peter Neubauer decided to study the effects of separating identical siblings.

But they weren't the only children used as guinea pigs in Neuabauer's cruel study.

Support Amy and her family's future

Amy was adopted in a late age from Ethiopia to Denmark. Donations must secure her a new home and help her get started with her studies.

SHORT DESCRIPTION

Sonntag Pictures is the film company that has been following the adopted girl Amy in her struggle for the past 5 years to recreate the family ties broken in her late adoption from Ethiopia.

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