The case of the unlawful cigarette manufacturing unit that was rumbled in 2017 is lastly reaching the courts, with revelations about working circumstances.
The employees at this clandestine cigarette manufacturing unit had been locked in, that means that if there had been a hearth, there was no escape. There have been no fireplace extinguishers there, both.
Moreover, they had been paid between 500 and 700 euros a month for 10-hour working days, and it ought to come as no shock that that they had no Social-Safety protection.
The possibilities of an accident working the machines had been additionally excessive as there was no security gear.
This was potential as a result of these employees had been all right here illegally from Jap Europe, so the manufacturing unit house owners had been exploiting them to the utmost.
The unlawful manufacturing unit was situated in Pilas de Algaida, which is a small municipal dependency of some 70 inhabitants, belonging to Ventas de Zafarraya within the Poniente de Granada, not removed from the northern restrict of AxarquÃa in Málaga.
Now the 13 folks behind the manufacturing unit (11 of whom are Spanish, plus one Russian and one Ukrainian) are dealing with jail for contraband, belonging to a prison gang and violation of employees’ rights.
(Information/Noticias: Ventas de Zafarraya, Poniente de Granada, Andalucia)
