Remember when he was at FC Bayern and almost went to prison?
According to a report by Paris Match, former Bayern Munich footballer Lucas Hernandez and his partner have been accused of human trafficking and violation of labor laws, per a complaint filed by a Colombian family. Between September 2024 and November 2025, the couple and their three children were allegedly employed for excessively long hours without legal status.
How it started
Per the report, the story began in 2024, when Marie (the daughter of the family) was contacted by Hernandez’s partner Victoria Triay.
“We met in Colombia,” she said. “She [Victoria] had come to have surgery, and I was her nurse. That’s where she kept in touch with me. Then she contacted me again to ask me to come work with them. She promised she would give me legal documents within six months so I would be in compliance and could travel with them anywhere in the world. I accepted because it excited me and because she promised to help me with the paperwork.”
However, when the couple arrived in France to take up their duties with the Hernandezes, the paperwork still hadn’t been prepared. Then, a few months later, the French defender and his partner apparently explained to her that they needed more staff — particularly for security. Marie thus brought over her mother, father, and two brothers from Colombia, with promises of a good quality of life and legal status in France.
The scheme
Marie and her mother, Jeanne, were employed as housekeepers. Marie worked 24 hours a day, from Monday to Sunday, for a salary of 2,000 euros. Jeanne worked for 12 hours a day, from 9am to 9pm, Monday to Sunday, for the same pay.
Marie’s duties mainly consisted of general housework as well as taking care of the Hernandez couple’s 5-year-old daughter. She was also responsible for grocery shopping and arranging house parties. She would even accompany Victoria Triay to the VIP boxes at Paris Saint-Germain games, and went with the couple on their vacations (to take care of their children).
The men of the family — the father and two sons — were allegedly employed as security guards on the property. One of the sons was a minor at the time. The men would work up to 72 to 84 hours a week for little pay (between 3,000 and 1,000 euros) and no days off or vacations.
The hiring of the five employees was not subject to any official declaration, whether social security or tax. The family were paid in cash without any pay slips. In February 2025, they were made to sign a confidentiality agreement, while employment contracts still hadn’t been drawn up.
The fallout
According to the family’s lawyer, Marie and her mother were fired by Victoria Triay in October 2025 after a violent argument at the house. After this, Lucas Hernandez tried to have employment contracts finally drawn up, after the pair had been fired, in an attempt to normalize the situation.
According to the complaint filed by the family, the men were forced to carry weapons on their person to ensure the safety of the Hernandez couple. They even foiled a burglary attempt in 2024, where Marie had to confront the burglars with a kitchen knife while her father shot his weapon to make them flee.
Marie details abuse by the Hernandez family. “When I worked for them, they told me: ‘If you leave, you’ll be nothing, you won’t find another job.’ In the last few days, they were yelling at me: ‘You can’t leave, you have to stay here, your schedule is 24/7 and I’m paying you for it.”
When she and her mother were fired, they were threatened with being sent back to Colombia. The case has apparently left the family with deep psychological scars.
The reply
“Lucas Hernandez has only contributed to maintaining this family in a deplorable economic and social situation, sometimes with an attitude that borders on modern-day slavery,” said lawyer Lola Dubois.
Hernandez’s agent indicated that the couple were “completely taken aback” by the allegations and completely unaware of the complaint.
This would not be the first time Lucas Hernandez has had a run-in with the law. When he was at Bayern Munich, the player was almost sent to prison for violating a Spanish court’s restraining order prohibiting him from seeing his girlfriend.
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