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"More than 15 Hours of Work in the Fields, without Water: Four Farmers Tried for Trafficking in Human Beings in the Gard

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Tuesday, October 06, 2026, the Nîmes Correctional Court judges a farmer from Saint-Gilles in the Gard and three alleged accomplices. They are suspected of having reduced Moroccan agricultural workers housed and employed in unworthy conditions for two years into quasi-slavery.

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Tuesday, October 06, 2026, the Nîmes Correctional Court judges a farmer from Saint-Gilles in the Gard and three alleged accomplices. They are suspected of having reduced Moroccan agricultural workers housed and employed in unworthy conditions for two years into quasi-slavery.

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Fifteen Moroccan seasonal workers demanded justice from Nîmes against their recruiters and their employers. They said they had paid for work, then had... The article 12,000 euros for a contract, then 60 hours in the orchards of the Gard appeared first on Le Singulier.

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Considering that the offence of trafficking in human beings was characterized for three of the four defendants, the prosecutor demanded against them sentences from one year to 18 months of suspended prison, and consequent fines, from 50,000 to 150,000...

Three persons are tried before the Nîmes Correctional Court (Gard) for the exploitation of some 15 foreign seasonal workers from 2022 to 2025. The victims, of Moroccan nationality, issued an alert during a labour inspection.

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franceinfo.fr broke the news on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.
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