“It was clear that it couldn’t continue like that.” Barbara Quee from Assen will not leave a tear to stop TV program Spoorloos. The program was discredited because adopted people were linked to the wrong parents. Quee had to deal with such a mismatch.
“It is very good that it stops. I think this was the only direction they could still go,” responds Quee. KRO-NCRV announced yesterday that Spoorloos will stop immediately. The program searched for 35 years abroad lost sight of relatives and biological relatives of adopted people in the Netherlands. Barbara Quee found out that she was not linked to her biological mother in Colombia.
Crime journalist Kees van der Spek revealed in 2022 that Quee and other participants of the program in Colombia were linked to the wrong biological parents. More than a week ago a new victim emerged. A woman was linked to a family by Spoorloos, who turned out not to be her real family more than twenty years later.
The mismatches raised many questions. Also at Quee. “It was never the intention to overthrow the program. But 2.5 years later his simple questions are still unanswered.” The most important unanswered question: “How could this have happened?”
Quee, together with girlfriend Fiona Teggatz de Buscas TU Familia and Colombia Foundation on, Looking for your family in Colombia. “Spoorloos was one of the only possibilities to do such a search for years. People made a well -considered choice, but perhaps not a desired choice. It was not immediately the desire for many adopted people to take the story with the story. As if as if. All other means to be able to search are insufficient was perhaps the last resort to turn to. “
“The question is whether the intention was to make a great program or give someone an identity back.” With the foundation there is now the possibility for Colombian adopted people to look for family members in Colombia out of the cameras.
“It is very important that your information is double checks a hundred times. You have to prevent you from having a night of ice. If a name and place of residence match the file, you should not think: it will be correct,” Quee explains. According to her, the entire puzzle must be correct. The last part is often a DNA match. “But sometimes that is also the first puzzle piece, because people give up DNA that we can get through an international database that we will find on a track.”
Whether stopping without a trace means that more requests come in from its foundation, finds Quee difficult to predict. “Spoorloos not only searched in Colombia and we did. But when people report to us, it is always an honorable task to start the personal search with someone.”