Moroccan seasonal workers reduced to slavery in France

Tried for human exploitation, fraud and money laundering in the agricultural sector, the brains of a network which essentially recruited illegal labor in Morocco for agricultural service companies in different regions of France, were sentenced to one year in prison.

On Tuesday, the judgment in the human exploitation and money laundering case which broke out after the dismantling of a hidden work network in the agricultural world fell. After two days of trial, the Montauban court (Tarn-et-Garonne) sentenced Aziz Zaida, 47, to “three years of imprisonment, two of which were suspended on probation”, reports La Dépêche du Midi. He was also fined 30,000 euros. Oualid Rahmoni, 39, was sentenced to “two years of imprisonment, one of which with a probationary suspension”, adjustable in the form of an electronic bracelet and “confiscation of the seals, i.e. 51,000 euros”.