Brussels, 12/10/2012 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 11 October, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found France guilty of failing to combat forced labour in a case involving an orphan girl who became a slave for her aunt, AFP reports. France was condemned to pay €30,000 to the girl. The Court in Strasbourg ruled that the French state had not set in place a legislative or administrative framework allowing for effective measures against servitude and forced labour. It noted breach of Article 4 of the European Convention of Human Rights which bans slavery. The plaintiff was one of two French sisters who had originally come from Burundi and from whom the ECHR received a complaint in 2009. The sisters arrived in France in 1994 and 1995, where they were raised by their aunt and uncle after the death of their parents, who were killed in the civil war. (SP/transl.jl)