Six French aid workers accused of trying to kidnap dozens of African children denied wrongdoing Friday as their trial began, with the head of the group insisting they were doing their best to help young war victims seek asylum in France.
Meanwhile, a journalist who had accompanied the Zoe's Ark mission told French radio the workers had been secretive while in Chad about plans to take the children to France.
The head of French charity Zoe's Ark, Eric Breteau, called the kidnap charges "fantasies" and insisted in court that "we acted in good faith and we only wanted to bring help to these young victims of war and in the end obtain asylum for them in France."
The investigators had thus far uncovered that many of the children who Zoe's Ark claimed were Darfurian refugees were actually taken from homes of Chadians.
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