Children stolen from the Republic: dark page in our history

Children stolen from the Republic: dark page in our history Published on 17/02/2014 the event Jessy Abrousse was removed from his family in 1967. /Photo DDM P. C. and documents DR. Between 1963 and 1982, more than 1,600 children in the meeting were transferred to France. Illegally for the most part. This forced exile, particularly in our region, has generated many dramas. This February 18, a resolution will be presented to the National Assembly that are recognized the responsibility of the State and this painful memory. The children of the Creuse... Because dozens of small reunion 'abandoned' or 'orphaned despite them' first transited the foyer of Guéret, it is under this name that the file is known. When it is known. Factual, historians Yvan Combeau and Sadel Fuma figures say however that is Tarn which housed the most: 202 against 197 in the Creuse, 101 in the Gers, 71 in the Hérault and 67 in the Lozère. But it doesn't matter. Person will be glory of this list which, in total, involved more than sixty departments from 1963 to 1982. Because these 1630 kids, boys and girls of all ages, the reunion DDASS tore at their island lived for the majority this uprooting as a calvary and some were even hell, from material poverty to emotional misery (read opposite). Of course, there were also generous host families for their open arms. But even for those, another suffering came one day add to the pain of losing their original identity: discover that had also lied them about their past and not anyone. The liar, it was the french State. Their story? It began in 1963, when the Gaullist Michel Debré was elected member of Parliament for the meeting. Too many poor children in the island while the French countryside empty? For the former Prime Minister of general De Gaulle, the solution is simple: these small reunion will leave repopulate the departments most affected by rural exodus. C.Q.F.D. On bottom of post-colonial paternalism claiming to make the happiness of the people despite them, then develops the Office for the development of migration related departments from the overseas. And Michel Debré personally oversees performances 'exporting '. In his book «A child fly», Jean-Jacques Martial recounts the role of bogeyman that then endorse the coming local DDASS take her grandmother. "The french State had decided to take care of orphans of the meeting, send them to France where they could study and even be adopted […] The problem is that very soon there was more enough of orphans. So the authorities have decided to choose children they felt abandoned. It took advantage of the illiteracy of the people for them to sign an inch acts of abandonment, when these were not outright falsified". In 1981 the left will put an end to the scandal. And years later adults who thought they were orphans discover they still have a mother, a father, a sibling to the meeting. In 2002, year where the IGAS survey recommends to open their records to the victims, was born Rasinn Anler association whose purpose will be to recognize the moral responsibility of the State. It is one of the major points of the resolution that the Member Ericka Bareigt tomorrow will present to the National Assembly to record the history of these children in the history. So they are no longer a "memory hole". P. C. 09:05 | France "First of all, I want to rehabilitate my mother. And then she finally had access to his file... "When I read to my brother, my sister and I" ethnic: clear enough Métis ", it told me...". 08:29 | France | 1 Gregory, a previous Martinique case Founded in 2002, the association Rasinn Anler is fighting for recognition of the history of Reunion Island children who underwent this forcible transfer to the...