Alleged baby traffickers on trial in France

Dozens of people go on trial today for suspected roles in a network that recruited desperate pregnant women from Bulgaria, transported them to France and sold their new-borns to childless couples.

The trial in Bobigny, north of Paris, centres on 22 babies who were sold between 2003 and 2005, mostly to couples within France’s Roma, or Gypsy, communities, for between €3,000 and €7,000, prosecutors say.