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In November, the Guarda Civil arrested members of a family suspected of enslaving a man for 17 years in Spain.
Dehumanization, unpaid household chores, embezzlement of unemployment benefits… A family of four Spanish fairground workers were arrested, accused of having reduced a man to slavery for 17 years. The victim, who will be 70 years old, was found and released by the Spanish gendarmerie in March 2024 in Caparroso, Navarre.
The man said he lived in “terror”. Forced to do the family's household chores and ride maintenance without any compensation.
Four stallholders arrested in Caparroso for holding a man for 17 years in conditions of slavery: they forced him to shower and relieve himself in the street https://t.co/AgILdKbJGs
— Cadena SER (@La_SER) https://twitter.com/La_SER/status/1859918753108255065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
He slept in the fairground's trailer or on a mattress on the floor in a garage and had to “shower and relieve himself in the street” in front of everyone, was fed “almost exclusively on sandwiches”, said the Guarda Civil .
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120,000 euros in cash
During a search, the gendarmes seized 120,000 euros in cash, which would correspond to the misappropriation of benefits, including unemployment, from the septuagenarian by the family.
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The victim, who had broken off all contact with her own family, had spoken with her daughter. He allegedly admitted to her that he wanted to leave the family of fairground workers “who treated him like a slave”. She notified the authorities.
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