The ten Moroccan seasonal workers, who lodged a complaint against their Spanish employers in the Huelva region after being sexually assaulted while working on the strawberry fields, appealed against the first-instance verdict which dismissed their complaint.
The online newspaper 'Lamar De Onuba' reported that the plaintiffs' lawyer called for the case to be reviewed and filed a 121-page appeal as of 04/09/2019.
For their part, local Moroccan media reported that the appeal in question came back to the incident of the arrest of hundreds of Moroccan women workers by the company that employs in 2018. The text of the complaint explained that this incident is a crime of 'trafficking in human beings'. In this context, the lawyer called that the Court of La Palma del Condado does not investigate the case he himself rejected.
In April 2019, the Tribunal's investigating judge decided to divide the complainants' cases (whether for sexual assault cases or poor working conditions), as did her colleague, of the same nature. Tribunal, for the cases of four other Moroccan complainants.
After the case was transferred to the Court of Appeal, the same court ordered the 'temporary reservation' of the second sexual assault case last July when the judge of the court of Palma refused listen to the testimonials of the workers.
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