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Hundreds of Spanish women have came forward in 2014 to claim that their babies were stolen at birth and given up for illegal adoptions. The placard reads, “Seville, I’m looking for my son 8/02/1967”. (Andrea Comas/Reuters)
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Spain’s first ‘stolen babies’ case comes to trial

The ‘stolen babies’ scandal was a dark chapter of the repressive Franco era that shook Spain when it eventually came to light in the 2000s

  • Adrien Vicente
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