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Original Title: Lucas Hernandez and his wife have been accused of human trafficking and hidden labour. A Colombian family is accusing the couple of making them work from September 2024 to November 2025 without any legal framework and with extremely long working hours.
The player and his wife are accused of human trafficking and illegal employment by a Colombian family. Between September 2024 and November 2025, a father, his wife, and their three children were employed by the couple without a legal framework and with long working hours.
They had arrived full of hope, buoyed by several promises: that of a better life and the opportunity to help their families back home. But everything quickly took a turn for the worse. According to information from Paris Match, Paris Saint-Germain defender and 2018 French World Cup champion Lucas Hernandez is the subject of a complaint for illegal employment and human trafficking, recently filed with the Versailles public prosecutor’s office.
The plaintiffs are members of a Colombian family who, for over a year, held various jobs working for the player and his future wife, Victoria Triay: caretaker, security guards, housekeepers, cooks, and nannies.
Promises of legal documents
The story between the family from Bogota and Lucas Hernandez’s family began in June 2024. At the time, Marie, who was still in Colombia, was contacted by Victoria Triay.
“We met in Colombia. She had come for surgery and I was her nurse. That’s where she kept my contact information. Then she contacted me again to ask me to come and work for them. She promised me that she would give me legal documents within six months so that I would be in good standing and could travel with them anywhere in the world. I accepted because I was excited about it and because she promised to help me with the documents,” the 27-year-old woman told Paris Match.
In September 2024, after spending a few days with the Hernandez family in Marbella, Marie arrived in France without a tourist visa—carrying only her passport—and began working at the couple’s home in the Yvelines department. “I arrived illegally. The documents hadn’t been prepared yet. She said they were talking to their lawyers to help me, but nothing was ever done,” she explains.
After a few weeks, the PSG defender and his partner explained that they needed more staff, particularly for security and maintenance. Marie immediately thought of her mother, father, and two brothers, who arrived in France in waves between September and October 2024. “We were promised a good quality of life and that we would be able to stay in France legally,” she recalls.
Between 72 and 84 hours per week, without an employment contract
In the couple’s home, family tasks are clearly divided. Marie and her mother, Jeanne, aged 48, are employed as housekeepers, cooks, and nannies. The former works Monday through Sunday, 24 hours a day, for a salary of €2,000. The second receives the same pay and works Monday to Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
At the Hernandez home, Marie—who lives there full-time—takes care of Victoria Triay’s 5-year-old daughter. She takes her to school, prepares the player’s belongings before his training sessions, manages his partner’s belongings, and sometimes accompanies her on outings with friends. She also does the shopping and organizes parties at home. “If she or Lucas were sick, I had to go to the pharmacy to get medicine for them,” she says.
In the evening, she puts the girl to bed around 9 p.m. but has to stay awake until the couple goes to bed. “My job was supposed to be 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for a salary that was totally insufficient for someone working so many hours,” Marie laments.
For over a year, the young woman also enjoyed the couple’s luxurious lifestyle. She accompanied Victoria Triay to the Paris Saint-Germain games and went on vacation with them to take care of the children. In some photos taken during this period, Lucas Hernandez and his partner can be seen smiling alongside Marie*. The same is true of her mother, Jeanne.
The men of the family—André*, the father, Christopher*, and Luc*, the two sons—are employed as security guards and caretakers. The first works nights, the other two from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Sunday. The father is paid €3,000 per month, the adult son €2,000, and the minor son—who will turn 18 in February—between €500 and €1,000. In total, each member of the family works between 72 and 84 hours per week, sometimes even more, with no days off or vacations.
The problem: the hiring of the five employees was not declared in advance to either social security or tax authorities. They do not have pay slips, as their salaries are paid exclusively in cash. “This is an entire family being deprived of their rights. Without employment contracts, they are not entitled to unemployment benefits or adequate social security coverage. Yet this is a professional soccer player, surrounded by numerous lawyers, both in his private life and at his club. The fact that he never deigned to provide them with an employment contract demonstrates the intentional nature of the offense,” says Lola Dubois, the plaintiffs’ lawyer.
In February 2025, when the employees still had not signed employment contracts, they signed confidentiality agreements. The plaintiffs also claim to have received “false Spanish identity cards” from their employer, intended to “give the appearance of a perfectly legal situation.”
Armed security guards
According to their lawyer, it was not until October 2025 that Lucas Hernandez agreed to draw up employment contracts. These documents were reportedly produced after Marie and her mother had been dismissed—a few days earlier—by the player’s partner, following a violent argument. I told her I was exhausted and couldn’t take care of my daughter anymore. One day, she started yelling at me and said, ‘You’re leaving the house,’" Marie recalls.
“These are documents drafted at the last minute in an attempt to regularize the situation. They state that they were working as part-time general employees,” explains Mr. Dubois. These contracts stipulate that the employees worked 86.67 hours per month for a gross monthly salary of €1,029. They also specify that they were responsible for routine housekeeping and helping with essential daily tasks.
Other elements add weight to the complaint. In the document consulted by Paris Match, the men of the family explain that they were forced to carry weapons to ensure the safety of the Hernandez family: a SIG Sauer P320 alarm pistol, a taser, and tear gas.
André, the father, reportedly had to use his weapon during a failed burglary attempt in December 2024. “When they broke in, my father and I fought them off, and thanks to us, the burglary didn’t happen. I went out with a knife behind the thieves, and my father had to shoot to scare them away. We risked our lives for them,” Marie says heatedly.
CCTV footage obtained by Paris Match corroborates the young woman’s testimony. It shows Marie and Victoria Triay in the garden, armed with large kitchen knives, panicked, alongside the police officers who had come to make their initial observations. At the time, the police seized the SIG Sauer P320, legally purchased by the Hernandez couple in 2023, before returning it to its owner.
“We were exploited and humiliated”
When asked about possible pressure or violence suffered at the hands of her employers, Marie mentions intimidating comments. “When I worked for them, they would say to me, ‘If you leave, you’ll be nothing, you won’t find work.’ In the last few days, they would yell at me, ‘You can’t leave, you have to stay here, your schedule is 24 hours a day and I pay you for that.’”
Since November, no member of the family has worked for the Hernandez family, but the pressure has reportedly continued. “When my mother and I were fired, she told me clearly, ‘I’m going to send you back to Colombia,’” she says.
The case has left the plaintiffs with serious physical and psychological scars.
“Psychologically, I’m not doing well. Physically, neither. I feel used, frustrated, and mistreated,” the young woman laments. “The others are also very affected. It’s been a lot of negative emotions in a very short time. “ Today, they all hope for one thing: ”that justice will be done.“ ”We were exploited and humiliated, paid well below what we were owed. They exploit immigrants and their families, promise regularization that never happens, and treat us like slaves,” insists Marie.
Lucas Hernandez and his partner “completely taken aback”
For her part, Lola Dubois concludes: “Lucas Hernandez has only contributed to keeping this family in a deplorable economic and social situation, sometimes with an attitude that borders on modern slavery.”
Contacted by Paris Match, the player’s agent, Frank Hocquemiller, said that he, his player, and his partner were unaware of the complaint and assured that Lucas Hernandez and Victoria Triay were “stunned.”
As a reminder, Lucas Hernandez is not the first Paris Saint-Germain player to be targeted by a similar complaint. In June 2024, a man filed a complaint for undeclared work against Keylor Navas, the former Parisian goalkeeper. “Following the information published in recent days by a French media outlet, which contains false, unfounded, and very serious accusations that affect me and my family, I have decided to hand the matter over to my lawyers in order to take all appropriate legal action,” he said at the time.
*First names have been changed.