The circumstances for the grapes that pick up Champagne business in France is located in the heart of a human trafficking test that opens the eastern town of reims.
Three people – a Kyrgyzstan woman, a Georgian man and a French – accused of enjoying over 50 seasonal workers.
Ang mga trabahante – ang tanan nga mga wala pa masundog nga migrante – nakit-an sa panahon sa 2023 Septyembre ani nga nagpuyo sa gubot ug dili mapugngan nga mga kahimtang sa usa ka building sa NESTE-LE-REPONS sa mga Reims sa Puso sa Puso sa Puso sa Puso sa Puso sa Puso sa Puso sa Puso sa Puso sa Puso sa Puso sa Puso sa Puso sa Puso sa Puso sa Puso sa Puso sa Puso sa Puso sa Puso sa Puso sa Puso sa Champagne Nanay.
They are recruited by a WhatsApp Group message for West Africa SonInte ethnic community living in Paris, which promises “good paid jobs” in the Champagne region.
It was 16 and 65 in time, 48 men and nine women from Mali, Mauritania, Ivory Coast and Senegal. Many attended the test on Thursday.
“They screamed at us in Russian and held us in the broken house, with a mattress on the floor,” Kanouéé Djakariau, 44, told the newspaper at La Crox.
“No clean water, and the only food is a bowl of rice and rotten sandwiches.
“I don’t think people who make champagne will put us in a place whether the animals do not accept.”
“We live with real terrible. We are mad at the experience.
At a week’s quit a week, Labor inspectors visited the scene and documented conditions “a serious violation of occupational occupations,” in the words of State, Annick Browne.
The prosecution says the living and food outside, is not protected from elements; the toilets are dirty; Rains are not adequate with incessant hot water; And electricities are a risk of salvation.
Plus migrants worked ten hours a day with only 30 minutes for lunch, carried by the vineyards squatting behind the trucks. They have no contract, and the salary they receive are “unrelated to the work made,” according to the prosecution.
“The accused had a general revulsion of human dignity,” says Maxime Cessieux, representing some migrants.
The 44-year-old suspect named Svetlana G., runs a recruitment agency called Anavim, specializing in Labor search for the wine industry. The two more are his associates.
In addition to the charge of human trafficking, the woman is also accused of undeclared labour, employing foreigners without permits, inadequate pay, and lodging vulnerable people in unfit conditions. All three terms of the Practice are up to seven years and major fines when they are judged.
The case raises questions about the width of worker’s exploitation at the € 6bn (£ 5.1bn) industry in Champagne. With each vine that should be selected by hand, producers who rely on about 120,000 seasonal adventures per autumn, which are mostly recruited by agencies.
In 2023 six grape pickers were killed from suspected heatstroke during the harvest of Champagne and Beaujolais regions – and in recent cases there were two other cases found guilty of Maltreatment of Migrant yield.
Trade unions say that some homes in Champagne hide middlemen, and they want the law to change so that producers can lose the “champagne” label with illegal work – even indirectly.
“It would not have been able to harvest the vines of champagne using human suffering,” says Jose Blanco in the CGT Union.
But the main body represents champagne producers – the comité champagne – says the mistrust of workers who are rarely and whenever stopped immediately.
The commité is represented in the test as a civilian plaintiff, in recognition of “the Damage to the Brand” of this “unacceptable acts.”
