A 41-year-old Romanian was sentenced Friday in Paris to five years' imprisonment for forcing his teenage half-brother to steal. The victim, Adrian (first name changed), also imprisoned for theft, accuses their father, aged 59, of the same acts.
The accused, Marius I., also received a permanent ban from French territory after being found guilty of “trafficking in human beings” Adrian, illiterate, has never been to school. Between the ages of 14 and 16, he was “unhappy, malnourished, beaten, forced to steal”