Shocking: An entire family was forced into slavery in Hungary
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There is no end to modern slavery: an entire family has been held in forced labour in Borsod County, Hungary. The three defendants have been charged.
Slavery in Borsod county
Vulnerable people were forced to work in a village in Borsod county, Hungary. The three accused have been charged. The family of six lived in completely vulnerable conditions and they had no steady income, napi.hu reports.
The prosecutor’s office of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County has brought charges against two men and a woman. The three forced a man and a family of six living in a small village in Borsod to perform hard physical labour for several years.
From early 2018 until the end of February 2020, the defendants, who are related to each other, forced a man with no income and poor health to do hard manual labour at their woodyard, fuel store and convenience store. They even threatened him at times.
Some food and wine as payment
They gave him food and two litres of wine a day as payment. They did not pay him the HUF 7-10 thousand (EUR 18.10-25.87) he was owed for casual work. Thus, they gained an illegal advantage totalling more than HUF 5 million (EUR 12,933).