The appeal of former Burundian justice minister Gabriel Mpozagara and his wife against a slavery conviction is to be heard on Wednesday. The two were handed a two-year suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay 70,000 euros in compensation for exploiting a compatriot for 10 years at their home in a Paris suburb.
On 21 October 2019, the Nanterre Criminal Court found Mpozagara and his wife guilty of “submission to forced labour” and “working conditions and accommodation contrary to dignity” of a Burundian farmer at their home in Ville-d’Avray, south-west of Paris.
The couple’s appeal is to he heard at the Versailles Court of Appeal on 17 February.
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During the hearing, the plaintiff, identified as Method S., testified to having been “enslaved” over a ten-year period, from 2008 to 2018, in the couple’s home.
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