KRO-NCRV will immediately stop the television program Trace -free. That is what the broadcaster writes in one press release.
Spoorloos has been around since 1990. The program helped adopted people to find their biological parents abroad. From 2022, however, it became clear that it went wrong several times: originally Colombian children were linked to families who were not theirs with the help of a local fixer.
At the end of 2022, the broadcaster called for former participants with doubts to report, whereby it also provided free DNA tests. Opposite the Telegraph say Media director Sandra Hilster that there are eight well -known mismatches so far, in a total of more than eight hundred reunities.
“We are very sorry that twenty to thirty years ago a number of people were linked to the wrong families,” the broadcaster writes on his website. In order to prevent victims from being confronted with the program, the broadcaster said he has chosen ‘with a heavy mind, but in full conviction’ Trace -free to stop.
The recordings for the new season are being stopped; The attempts that are now being made to link participants in the season to their families will continue, but will not be broadcast, says Hilster in De Telegraaf.
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