World Cup winner and model girlfriend deny claims of human trafficking family as pair release statement

The Versailles prosecutor's office has confirmed that an inquiry is being conducted into the 2018 World Cup winner and Triay.

The case was assigned to the St Germain-en-Laye research brigade.

According to a French publication, Paris Match, the allegations centre on a family of five who claim they were employed at the couple's residence between September 2024 and November 2025.

The 29-year-old left-back and Triay strongly reject the accusations, maintaining they were manipulated and deceived by individuals they had welcomed into their home and describing themselves as "betrayed”.

The family's lawyer, Lola Dubois, told Paris Match that her clients were required to work up to 82 hours per week without any rest days.

She alleged that Hernandez and Triay employed the five individuals without proper legal documentation and without providing employment contracts.

The family's daughter claimed she was initially approached by Triay whilst working as her nurse in Colombia, with promises of official paperwork that would permit legal employment within six months.

However, she alleged this documentation never arrived, and after her mother, father and two brothers joined her in France, the family endured demanding conditions with what they described as inadequate pay.

The family claim that they received only cash payments and were given fraudulent identity documents after signing confidentiality agreements in February 2025.

Dubois told Paris Match: "An entire family is deprived of its rights. Without employment contracts, they are not entitled to unemployment benefits or adequate social security coverage."

The lawyer argued that Hernandez, as a professional footballer with access to numerous legal advisers both privately and through his club, had no excuse for failing to provide proper contracts, suggesting this demonstrated deliberate intent.

Following a dispute between the daughter and Triay in October, the family claimed they reportedly presented with official employment documents, which Dubois described as hastily prepared attempts to regularise the situation, listing them as part-time workers earning approximately €1,029 monthly for 86 hours.

Hernandez's agent told Paris Match the couple were "completely taken aback" by the claims.

The pair released a statement.

They said: "We opened our home and our lives to people who presented themselves as friends, who sought our kindness and for whom we had genuine affection.

"These people shared our lives with respect and dignity. We helped them, supported them, and believed them when they assured us that they were in the process of regularising their situation. That trust has been betrayed.

"Unfortunately, we are not the first to experience such a situation. Like many others before us, we were manipulated by emotional stories and false assurances. We never acted with malicious intent or in contempt of the law. We acted as human beings - and learned, painfully, that compassion can be exploited.

"What makes this situation even more trying is to see a gesture of trust and humanity turned into public attacks and accusations."

They added: "This ordeal has been deeply painful for our family.

"This matter is now being dealt with through the appropriate legal channels, where the facts - not the narratives circulating on social media - belong.

“We call for decency, restraint, and respect. We will not participate further in online speculation."

Hernandez, who lifted the World Cup with France in Russia, moved to PSG from Bayern Munich in 2023 after beginning his career at Atletico Madrid.

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