Identical twins from Georgia, who are among the many babies stolen from their mothers and sold at birth, are said to have managed to find each other years later, thanks to a video posted on the TikTok platform.
“It was like looking in a mirror; exactly the same face, exactly the same voice. I am her and she is me,” Amy Khvitia told the BBC on Friday, recalling her meeting with her identical twin Ano Sartania, after finding herself on TikTok in 2021.
For the young woman, her search for her twin sister began at the age of 12, when she saw Ano Sartania on the stage of the show “Georgia’s Got Talent”.
“Everyone was calling my mom and asking, ‘Why is Amy dancing under another name?’ recalled the young woman, according to the British media.
But his mother quickly brushed aside his questions: “everyone has a double,” she would have replied.
Except that in November 2021, seven years later, a friend of Ano Sartania sent her a video of Amy Khvitia taken from the TikTok platform, highlighting the resemblance of the two young women.
She then allegedly tried to trace her twin on the platform, before sharing the video in a Whatsapp group at her university, where a friend of Amy’s finally put them in contact.
“I’ve been looking for you for so long!” Amy would have replied when receiving the first message, according to the BBC.
After meeting face to face, the twins would have taken turns confronting their respective families, who would have ended up admitting that they had been adopted a few weeks apart in 2002, without knowing that they had a twin sister .
Both families were told that an unwanted baby was at the local hospital, but that doctors would have to pay for the adoption, without knowing that this was illegal, according to the British media.
Thanks to a Facebook group which aims to reunite the families of babies stolen in Georgia, the two sisters managed to trace their biological mother, a German woman named Aza, who had fallen into a coma after giving birth at the maternity hospital in Georgia. Kirtskhi.
When he woke up, the staff told him of the supposed death of his two twins.
Since 2022, the Georgian government has reportedly set up an investigation to try to shed light on child trafficking, which could have claimed up to 100,000 young victims, according to journalist Tamuna Museridze, also stolen at birth, who set up the Facebook group to try to get answers, according to the BBC.
