Strapped for a moment of rest or taken home and left without care instead of in hospital after an illness.
These are some of the episodes involving foreign agricultural workers that emerged from the investigation by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Santa Maria Capua Vetere into gangmastering in the Caserta area, which led to the issuing by the investigating judge of San Marino of four residence bans in the province of Caserta for as many agricultural entrepreneurs from Marano di Napoli. , accused of the crimes of labor exploitation and use of illegal labor.
The investigation, conducted by the Carabinieri of the Labor Inspectorate, began following the checks carried out by the military on agricultural land and activated by the anti-corporate taskforce foreseen with the "Su.Pr.Eme" project.
The police noticed ten foreign laborers picking tomatoes, and discovered that none had a contract, and were forced to work eleven hours a day for seven days for a daily wage of 30-40 euros.
Some laborers then told the police about the violence suffered by corporals and agricultural entrepreneurs;
thus emerged the case of the worker caught with the belt after sitting on the ground to rest, or of another who was taken ill and taken home instead of to some health facility.
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