Chad says it wants France to pay more than $8 million indamages to the Chadian children French aid workers tried to take out ofthe country last year.
A Chadian court sentenced six French aidworkers last year to eight years of hard labor and ordered them to pay$88,000 to each of the children involved in the case.
Chad said Friday that France is liable for the damages awarded to the children.
Theaid workers said they believed the children were orphans from Sudan'stroubled Darfur region. But an international investigation found mostof them were Chadian and had at least one parent or guardian.
The aid workers have been returned to France, where their sentence was converted from hard labor to eight years in prison.