Amendolara: March held for four farm workers burned alive
Thousands of people gathered in Amendolara to remember four migrant workers killed by labour gang bosses. The Cgil union is demanding justice and stricter measures against exploitation.
Amendolara: March held for four farm workers burned alive
In Amendolara, in the province of Cosenza, a crowd of approximately three thousand people marched in a procession organised by the Cgil union. The aim was to pay tribute to four agricultural workers killed brutally: three Afghan citizens and one Pakistani. The four were found charred inside a van during the night between Sunday and Monday. Investigators from Castrovillari believe that their exploiters killed them because they had dared to claim the wages owed to them. The two alleged murderers have been arrested and are in custody.
Leading the demonstration were Cgil confederal secretary Maurizio Landini and Flai Cgil secretary Giovanni Minnini. Among the participants were also political figures such as Elly Schlein from the Democratic Party, Nicola Fratoianni from Left Italy and deputies from the Five Star Movement. Before the march began, Landini and Minnini went to the petrol station where the massacre occurred to lay wreaths of flowers.
The victims were identified as: Waseem Khan, aged 29, Amin Fazal Khogjani, aged 28, Safi Iayjad, aged 27, and Ullah Ismat Qiemi, just 19 years old. According to reconstructions, the young men were locked inside the vehicle with the doors blocked from the outside and the vehicle was set on fire.
During the march, Landini denounced a business model founded on human exploitation. He called on institutions and entrepreneurs to react concretely to stop a phenomenon that costs the lives of the most vulnerable.
Schlein put forward concrete proposals: the establishment of a dedicated prosecution unit for agricultural mafia crime and the strengthening of legislation against labour gang boss practices, with the introduction of preventive seizure for companies that resort to slave labour. "It is necessary to speak of employers, not just of labour gang bosses," she emphasised.
Source: Il Fatto Quotidiano - Cronaca