Moroccan Worker Alleges Exploitation in French Vegetable Farm Trafficking Case
Arrived in Bordeaux to earn a better living, a 20-year-old Moroccan and other foreign workers have been victims of human trafficking on a vegetable plantation in Lot-et-Garonne. The case is being tried before the Agen Criminal Court.
"I was a really happy young man, I felt good, I was very motivated," recalls Oussama, a 20-year-old Moroccan, who arrived in Bordeaux in search of a better life. But once at the home of his employer, who was supposed to house him, he loses his illusions. "There were her children and workers in a very dilapidated house. She took me to a dirty room, where there were six people. I wanted to leave, but it was my first day," he tells franceinfo. Oussama has an enormous workload. "We started work at 8 a.m., without safety gear, in shorts and a t-shirt. I worked every day, between 9 and 11 hours a day, with a temperature reaching 36 degrees," specifies the young Moroccan. Without food and without money, they decided for him what he would do during the day, he had no leeway
