Calderone: «Everyone's aim is to declare war on gangmastering».

«We had a meeting with the representatives of the employers' and trade unions' associations in the agricultural world to discuss together the interventions already made by the government and those that will be made, but first of all say clearly, clearly and without the possibility of misunderstanding, that everyone's aim is to declare war on gangmasters". The Minister of Labor states this, Marina Calderone, in a press conference after the meeting with the union and employer representatives convened following the death of Satnam singh, the laborer who lost his life to Latina after being abandoned with his arm amputated.

«We cannot help but remember and condemn – adds the minister – what happened in Cisterna di Latina to the Indian citizen Satnam Singh, who lost his life during a work activity that was totally irregular, but even more so who lost his life because he was not rescued and there are those who thought of abandoning him without providing him with any human assistance in a very serious moment in which very serious they were the wounds he had sustained".

«We will strengthen the quality agricultural network because the fight against undeclared work and gangmastering also involves supporting those who, with difficulty but with a great sense of civil participation, regularly manage their own activities», he said, recalling that only 6 thousand companies have registered. In particular «the information system for the fight against gangmastering in agriculture allows us to structurally put at the service of a synergistic contrasting activity everything that the Ministry of Labour, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Labor Inspectorate, the Carabinieri of the labor protection, INPS and INAIL and all the entities that deal with workers in Italy can provide us with databases", he added Cauldron.

The death of a worker "because of a criminal" it must not lead to the criminalization of all agricultural businesses. These are the words of the Minister of Agriculture, Francesco Lollobrigida, during the press conference at the end of the meeting held with the Minister of Labor Calderone and with the union and employer representatives, following the death of the Indian laborer Satnam Singh. «In these situations it may happen that there is a criminalization of one of the links in the supply chain. It may therefore happen that, faced with serious episodes such as the one in Latina, even all agricultural businesses are criminalized", said Lollobrigida underlining that «these deaths do not depend on agricultural entrepreneurs. They depend on criminals", then citing an act of vandalism against an agricultural association in Lombardy.

Meanwhile, yesterday afternoon at the San Camillo hospital in Rome, theautopsy on the body of Satnam Singh, the 31-year-old Indian laborer who died after being abandoned, missing an arm, in front of his house, by the owner of the company where he worked illegally in Latina. The results of the test will be useful to establish whether, if help had been called immediately, instead of leaving him in front of his house with his right limb amputated and placed in a vegetable box, near the garbage, the man could have been saved. Satnam, due to the delay in calling for help, remained for a long time with his arm amputated and lost a lot of blood.

In the meantime, the seizure of the machinery and the area within the company where the accident occurred, while the Carabinieri of the Latina provincial command are currently listening to the other laborers to reconstruct the facts exactly. The investigation, coordinated by the prosecutor of Latina Giuseppe De Falco and the public prosecutor Marina Marra, aims to clarify some points that are still obscure. The only suspect is Antonello Lovato, 37 years old, owner of the family farm together with his father.