“We were afraid of dying.” Mohamed, an Afghan agricultural worker, shows his burn bandages to the cameras of Tgr Calabria which interviewed him exclusively. The young agricultural worker is the only survivor of the Amendolara massacre, where four foreign citizens were killed in the service station.
To journalist Francesco Salvatore’s microphones, the laborer showed wounds in different parts of his body. The young man lives in Villapiana in a house he shared with the victims. He told TGR that it was their Pakistani corporals who burned them alive. They were exploited and forced to live in inhumane conditions: “This is the Pakistani mafia,” he says. The young man works as a seasonal worker in the strawberry harvest.
It is enough to look at the images of the video surveillance cameras, acquired by the investigators, to reconstruct the dynamics of what happened. From the frames, two foreign citizens can be seen quickly exiting the minivan, while smoke comes out of the hood. One tries to keep the door closed so as not to let his compatriots out while the other accomplice presumably takes the petrol pumps to sprinkle the vehicle with fuel. The statements of the survivor and other testimonies were also fundamental for the investigations. Two Pakistani citizens were arrested for the Amendolara massacre.
