“It would be very serious if it were murders that occurred in a feud between gangmasters and it would be an unspeakable horror if instead the four victims were workers who perhaps wanted to rebel against the yoke of exploitation.” This was stated in a joint note by Gianfranco Trotta, general secretary of CGIL Calabria, Caterina Vaiti, general secretary of Flai Cgil Calabria, Andrea Ferrone, general secretary of CGIL Pollino – Sibaritide – Tirreno, and Federica Pietramala, general secretary of Flai Cgil Pollino Sibaritide – Tirreno regarding the “terrible tragedy” with eight Pakistani laborers killed in Amedolara.
“The Sibari plain cannot be continuously marked by exploitation and gangmastering”
«We ask the police – they continue – for clarity and above all for greater support for politics, with more concrete actions, also linked to financed projects that are increasingly helpful, so that the abomination of everyday life experienced by workers, often migrants, in our countryside is countered: precariousness, transport, insecurity and extreme vulnerability, blackmail and violence. Should this hypothesis emerge, it can no longer be tolerated that the Sibari plain is continually marked by labor exploitation and gangmastering.” «The contours of the affair – the trade unionists underline – are still being examined by the investigators and the Flying Squad, who at the moment are not ruling out any leads, especially in light of the trail of vehicles set on fire in the area in recent months, vehicles probably used by the gangmasters for the transport of agricultural workers. We are not yet certain that the victims were agricultural workers, although it is very likely. What happened certainly marks a change of pace in the criminal infiltration of the territory.”