“We open our press release by expressing our closeness to the family and to the entire Indian community of the area for the recent tragedy that occurred in the Borgo Santa Maria area following which Satnam Singh, a 31-year-old boy, died yesterday.
A story which, if confirmed, will leave us dismayed by the circumstances in which it occurred. Circumstances that violate human rights and which for some highlight such a low value for human life. Singh Satnam was abandoned near his home after suffering an injury at work. According to what has been reconstructed, while he was working as a laborer on a farm, the man suffered the amputation of a limb which had become entangled in a roller plastic wrapping machine dragged by a tractor.
The phenomenon of so-called white deaths, as well as the episodes related to gangmastering that we have witnessed in recent years, must absolutely be stopped. All the entities involved, from public administrations of all levels to the police forces, from political forces to civil society as a whole, must work together so that not only the elementary safety standards in the workplace are respected but so that the human dignity. Together we must build a social barrier to the moral and physical decadence of some realities. Together we must prevent episodes like the one in Borgo Santa Maria from happening again and to ensure that Satnam Singh did not die in vain.
For these reasons we are now announcing the presentation in the next Aprilia city council of a motion that recalls what was previously stated.
Furthermore, we ask the President of the Province of Latina, on the basis of what the Latina Municipality is doing, to constitute the Province of Latina as a civil party in the possible trial.
As a civic coalition we will continue to carry forward all those requests and policies that we have pursued in recent years both on the cultural and material fronts relating to safety in the workplace, respect for human rights and fair integration between peoples”.
Aprilia, 20 June 2024
