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00:00Two thousand children left Brazil in the last nine years adopted by foreign couples.
00:06Legal adoptions.
00:08A much larger number, more than 5,000, left Brazil illegally, according to the Federal Police.
00:16Every year, 40,000 children and adolescents disappear in Brazil.
00:21The search for the missing is very difficult.
00:24The scandal of illegal adoptions.
00:26Poor mothers who give their newborns.
00:29A process full of irregularities.
00:31The National Council of Justice decided to investigate the adoptions.
00:35In less than a month, they almost completed the adoption of two Brazilian children.
00:39There is trafficking, there is trade, and there are people behind it.
00:44The squadrons falsify documents.
00:46With the authorization to travel abroad.
00:48The CPI of trafficking of people in Brazil.
00:50It is not a network that is summarized to these agenciadores here in Brazil.
00:54And taken to another country.
01:00When I arrived in France, my adoptive mother was 50 years old and my adoptive father was 58.
01:06People thought they were my grandparents.
01:13The name Charlotte has always been complicated for me.
01:17People always wondered, wow, it doesn't match you.
01:21Charlotte is a very French girl, a blonde, with light hair.
01:29At school they always came to me with these speeches that I had to return to my country.
01:35They said that France had extended a hand to me, that France was generous, that it took me out of the jungle, out of hunger.
01:42And that I was lucky not to have died of hunger in my country.
01:48I didn't understand why I was in that place.
01:52Since very early on, I felt that adoption had been done in the wrong way.
01:59In a normal adoption, a child would never have been taken to such a hostile home.
02:07So at that moment, I thought about my mother.
02:10Where would she be? Who would she be?
02:13I tried to imagine her face.
02:16I dedicated myself to looking for my story.
02:19I needed to grasp a truth.
02:22And the only thing I knew was that I was Brazilian.