Saint-Émilion: Moroccan workers exploited, their recruiters convicted

A father and his son, of Moroccan nationality, were sentenced on Tuesday, November 5 by the Libourne criminal court to prison for human trafficking. They provided labor to wine châteaux in Saint-Émilionnais.

The court found them guilty of exploiting four Moroccan compatriots in undignified conditions. Aged 28 and 59, they received respectively six months and one year in prison, sentences which can be modified by wearing an electronic bracelet, reports France Blue. “For his lesser involvement”, the son was sentenced to a lesser sentence. Maître Jean Trebesses, lawyer for several civil parties, welcomed this decision: “The court sanctioned this system of exploitation, with unscrupulous employers who brought in these Moroccan agricultural workers. They housed them in absolutely unworthy and indecent living conditions, making them work on wine farms without any compensation. »