Il processo francese espone la tratta di esseri umani tra i lavoratori di champagne
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Il processo francese espone la tratta di esseri umani tra i lavoratori di champagne
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di Strict_League7833
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Conditions for grape-pickers in France’s champagne business lie at the heart of a human trafficking trial that has opened in the eastern city of Reims.
Three people – a woman from Kyrgyzstan, a man from Georgia and a Frenchman – are accused of exploiting more than 50 seasonal workers, mainly from west Africa.
The workers – all undocumented migrants – were found during the 2023 September harvest living in cramped and unhygienic conditions in a building at Nesle-le-Repons, southwest of Reims in the heart of champagne country.
They had been recruited via a Whatsapp group message for the West African Soninke ethnic community living in Paris, which promised “well-paid work” in the Champagne region.
This practice needs to end if champagne becomes more expensive so be it. Goods should not be cheap on the backs of abused migrant workers.
I thought Europe wasn’t racist?
“Champagne” is a scam.
They want to compete by getting the cheapest labor around, yet want to overcharge for its namesake.
The shareholders would rather live through this profound contradiction, even if it means landing in court, than cut their profit margin.
it’s not true luxury if there isn’t some suffering involved i guess
Everyone who lives close to rural or agricultural areas knows that most of the workers there are immigrants paid like 3€ an hour (if they’re lucky)
Surprised it even makes headlines, this shit been happening for decades, I’ve got so many stories from my fellow romanians that went to France, Germany, Austria, Spain in agriculture sectors.
[Slaves in Europe’s Fields – Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung](https://www.rosalux.de/en/publication/id/41102/slaves-in-europes-fields/)
I imagine they treat the undocumented migrants even worse
Damn, isn’t the mark-up for this famous sparkling wine not even enough?
Since it’s in the Champagne region of France it’s not called human trafficking, it’s called Trafic d’être humain and it’s classy
Good thing something is being done. Slave labor and trafficking in Europe is such an embarrasment. We know these workers deserves fair wages, good living conditions and everything else we normally offer workers here and still we haven’t managed to stop this way of exploiting people yet.
Source? That’s just an image.
No surprises sadly. Same thing happening here with the fruits and vegetables mainly. As in every country that has a big agricultural sector.
Hard drug of legal alcohol uses human slaves like the soft drug of illegal cannabis but the last one never killed from overdose or direct illness (except smoking) and alcohol kill each year in France 50.000 French people.
This problem is so old, that even simpsons made an episode about it, 35 years ago:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crepes_of_Wrath