Eight princesses of the United Arab Emirates found guilty of human trafficking and the degrading attitude of the servants. The court of Brussels sentenced them to 15 months of conditional imprisonment and fines for 165 thousand Euro each.
We are talking about Princess Shekha al Nahyan and seven daughters.
The court found that during visits to the Belgian capital in 2007-2008 they had over 20 brought with maids in slave-like conditions. For royalty was leased a whole floor in an expensive hotel.
On what has become known as one of the maids managed to escape and submit a statement to the police. She otvergali that workers demanded to be ready to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They had to sleep on the floor, and they eat scraps from the table of the princesses.
During the trial, the lawyers princesses denied all charges.
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