4 couples arrested over ‘fake papers’ in African nation amid trafficking claims

• An adoption nightmare, or human trafficking? In Zambia in Southern Africa, eight Croatians have been arrested twice on the same human trafficking charge. 
• The eight are accused of child trafficking in general, and in particular of having forged adoption papers for four children from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who they wanted to take to Croatia. 

Charges against the Croatians were dropped earlier this month, but they were re-arrested on the same charge at the airport as they tried to leave the country 48 hours later. 

Croatia’s Justice Minister Ivan Malenica has condemned the re-arrest as “strange”, saying at a press conference reported by Croatian news site N1 that he is concerned about this “very serious situation,” as he claims adoption papers for the children are not forged.

The eight Croatians – four couples – have all pleaded not guilty.

The seemingly regular couples are also professionals with jobs including an administrator, an electrical technician, a medical doctor, a program director and a professional musician who is a guitarist in a popular music band.

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