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Quote: 'Charges near' in Chad child row The workers say they were assured that the children were orphans Eighteen people are set to be charged over the alleged attempted abduction of children in Chad, a prosecutor says. Ahmat Daoud told reporters the charges had been filed and were awaiting approval from judicial authorities. Nine French aid workers and reporters, seven Spanish flight crew and two Chadian nationals face charges ranging from kidnapping to being accomplices. The Europeans were detained in the city of Abeche on Thursday as they prepared to fly 103 children out of the country. The charity that organised the operation, Zoe's Ark, says the children are orphans from Sudan's war-torn Darfur region and its actions were legal. However staff from the UN children's agency Unicef say many of the children, now being kept in an orphanage in Abeche, cry at night for their parents and say they are from villages in Chad. Earlier Chad's Interior Minister Ahmat Mahamat Bachir warned the aid workers could spend several years in jail. Slow system The nine French detainees will face charges of attempted child abduction and fraud, Mr Daoud said. The seven Spaniards will be charged with being accomplices to the crime, as will the two unidentified Chadian nationals. It now looks likely the prisoners currently being held in Abeche will be transferred to jail, though whether they will be moved to the capital N'Djamena is unclear, reports the BBC's Stephanie Hancock. Another European - a Belgian pilot - is in detention in N'Djamena, but is not reported to face charges at present. Our correspondent says that once formal charges are lodged it could be some time before those charged appear in court to enter a plea. She says the Chadian justice system moves notoriously slowly, but that faced with such a high-profile and sensational case the judiciary may well move more quickly than normal. On the runway Our correspondent was among a group of reporters taken by Chadian authorities to the airport at Abeche, a town close to the Sudanese border, and shown the private charter plane still sitting on the runway where it was abandoned three days ago. The children are not being treated for any serious illnesses or injuries The reporters were also taken to the orphanage where the children are being cared for by aid workers and UN staff. The majority of the children are believed to be between three and five years old, with the oldest about eight or nine, and several babies no more than one and a half, our correspondent says. The charity insists it was trying in good faith to take endangered children abroad for medical treatment. But aid workers said they were not treating any of the children for any serious illnesses or injuries. The reporters were also later taken to local police headquarters to see the 16 detained Europeans. They are not being held in prison cells but in a large room and are showing no signs of mistreatment, our correspondent says. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said the charity workers' actions were illegal and unacceptable, while Chad's President Idriss Deby has promised "severe punishment" for what he has described as a "kidnapping" or "child-trafficking" operation.