This Thursday, October 31, the Bobigny criminal court sentenced a couple and their son to prison terms for forcing young people aged 10 to 16 to beg in Seine-Saint-Denis.
A couple and their son were sentenced Thursday, October 31 by the Bobigny criminal court to sentences of two to four years in prison with continued detention for subjecting several children of their son to begging for several years in Seine-Saint-Denis. family clan.
Before the court appeared a 39-year-old father and a 37-year-old mother, as well as their 20-year-old eldest son, all of Romanian nationality.
They were respectively sentenced to four, three and two years in prison with continued detention. Their various parental authorities were taken away from them. But they did not receive an inadmissibility, contrary to the requisitions of the public prosecutor.
According to the prosecution, which conducted a two-year investigation, they forced at least six minor children aged 10 to 16 to beg, the majority of whom were theirs.
They were begging while pregnant
Two daughters-in-law, teenagers and married according to Gypsy tradition, were also observed begging, while being pregnant.
At the Bondy bridge, between the multiple lanes which intertwine, the children took advantage of a red light of varying length to wash the windows of motorists, equipped with a bottle of water full of soap and a raclette.
Once the operation was finished, they asked for a small room. The money collected was the main source of income for this family who lived in cabins in a camp.
