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Two French aid workers were convicted of fraud on Tuesday and sentenced to two years in prison for trying to bring 103 children from central Africa to France for adoption, claiming they were orphans from Darfur. The Paris court also convicted Eric Breteau and Emilie Lelouch of the French charity Zoe’s Ark of illegally acting as adoption intermediaries and attempting to bring foreign minors into the country. The two defendants were tried in absentia while living in South Africa, but they showed up for the verdict. Four other members of the group received suspended sentences. The six workers were arrested in Chad in 2007 as they sought to put the children on a plane. An investigation there found they were from Chad, not neighboring Sudan’s Darfur region, and most were not orphans. Two French aid workers were convicted of fraud on Tuesday and sentenced to two years in prison for trying to bring 103 children from central Africa to France for adoption, claiming they were orphans from Darfur. The Paris court also convicted Eric Breteau and Emilie Lelouch of the French charity Zoe’s Ark of illegally acting as adoption intermediaries and trying to bring foreign minors into the country. The two were tried in absentia while in South Africa, but they showed up for the verdict. Four other members of the group received suspended sentences. The six workers were arrested in Chad in 2007 as they sought to put the children on a plane. An inquiry there found they were from Chad, not Sudan’s Darfur region, and most were not orphans.