Europe has never come to terms with slavery, it has just brushed it under the carpet, that is why it continues to this day in various forms, be it domestic, industrial, sex ..... This is why institutionally they terat it as a misdemeanor. Judicially they see mistreatment of a dog as a worse offence than the slavery of a human being, this comes as baggage of the European collonial past. But France is by no means the greatest perpetraitor, the UK outstrips them as the expert of domestic slavery, the London area has well known documented cases of children forced into domestic slavery by middle class 'owners', who try to relive the hay day of Britich imperialism with their own house maids.

I am a woman and I am a black woman. I feel that body of this woman is also my body. France has nasty and shameful history of abusing black people and black women in particular. When it comes to European colonialism, the French are great more malevolent than the British. One may think that the French are less racist than the British because the French do it with style. When it comes to racism, The French racism is much deeper than that of the British. France had contributed great deal more than the British to the 19th century discourse of Scientific Racism. Today, French is one of the most racist countries in Europe-much more than the UK. As for slavery, the French were engaged in slavery as much as the rest of Europe.

By far the largest number of all human trafficking ends up in Western Europe. Some humans are enslaved in places in Eastern Europe, but typically in "employ" of a firm producing for Western European markets. None of this is acknowledged, nor dealt with. The various forms of human slavery are all over European cities, yet there is so much pretending that it does not exist. There is no police department there that is not aware of the places where slaves are kept, often in public view in the case of prostitution. And in London, entire districts of "massage parlors" are run by well known gangs using slave labor. And more ominously, these human beings are the victims of organ harvesting. The beneficiaries are again people with money. What will it take to get the countries whose citizens are most often victims to get serious about educating its population, especially young and the children? Romanians and Ukrainians are heavily represented in slave labour situations, yet the education of public is non-existent. Where are now NGO's in those countries? However, the problem is mostly in those countries not wanting to point the finger at Europe, in fear of retaliation. It is mighthy easy for EU to blame the corruption in country x,y,z, and withhold economic and financial arrangements. For that reason, they are threading softly, even at the expense of its populace.