Opinion › Feature Article       09.05.2018

How DNA Test In Belgium Exposed Fake African Parents

Genetic (DNA) testing is being carried out within the framework of family reunion procedures under the Belgian law of 15 December 1980. This law is primarily about those who can have access to the territory, residence, settlement and, of course, the expulsion of foreign nationals from Belgium.

This law had been inactive for a very long time, then suddenly it resurfaced, when the authorities strongly brought it into force. The question is, why parents who want their children to join them in Belgium should undergo a compulsory DNA test, to find out if they are truly parents of the claimed children?

In fact, many of the children brought to Belgium are not the children of those who claimed to be their parents. On many occasions, the children are forced into prostitution on arrival. If they refuse they are threatened with violence and possible death. I covered a story of an alleged mother who forced her “daughter” into prostitution to recover the money she spent on bringing her to Europe.

When the girl refused to pay the money, it became warfare between the two parties. Eventually, the mentally and physically tormented girl went to the police to tell them that: “She has been forced into prostitution. That woman is not my real mother.”

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With hundreds of such cases reaching the police daily, it is not surprising that parents and children are now compulsorily subjected to DNA tests and the plan has worked out very well for the Belgian authorities. Since the DNA test came into force, the number of children brought from Africa to Belgium has decreased considerably.

Investigations revealed that some applicants bringing their children to Belgium, suddenly abandoned the children's passports at the Belgium Embassy in Ivory Coast, even though the visa fees had been fully paid. Unexpectedly, the DNA test request has hit them so hard that they are nowhere to be found.

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