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France Jails Three in Champagne 'Slaves' Case
CHAMPAGNE REGION, FRANCE, JUL 21 – Three individuals received prison sentences for exploiting over 50 undocumented migrant workers during the 2023 grape harvest, with courts imposing fines and ordering compensation to victims.
- On Monday, July 21, the Châlons-en-Champagne court sentenced three people, including the Kyrgyz director of Anavim, to prison for exploiting migrant workers during the 2023 grape harvest.
- WhatsApp recruitment messages targeted the Soninke community, and labour inspectorate found accommodation that seriously undermined workers’ safety, health and dignity, police sealed the building.
- The court sentenced the Anavim director, a Kyrgyz woman in her forties, to two years in prison plus a two-year suspended term, and two other defendants, men in their thirties, received one-year sentences with suspended terms, with all three ordered to pay €4,000 to each victim.
- Victims’ lawyer Maxime Cessieux called the verdict a turning point, while the court ordered the dissolution of Anavim and fined a wine-making cooperative €75,000.
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