Everyone’s talking about it: what happened to Satnam Singhthe laborer of Indian origins, 31 years old, died in Latina after being literally dumped seriously injured in front of his house It’s truly unheard of and deeply sad.
The fact
The man had lost his arm in a work accident in the Agro Pontino fields. Transported only later by helicopter to hospital, he died yesterday morning, June 19th. The doctors tried in every way to save his life, but were unable to do anything in the face of the damage caused to the victim by the bad head trauma reported during the accident. The 31-year-old was left without treatment for too long, with his blood pressure at too low levels.
To dump him in front of the house without calling for help, leaving theamputated limb in a plastic box to avoid consequences his employer. The man, a 37 year old, as reported The Republic, He is under investigation for manslaughter and negligence.
Mentana’s comment
Commenting on this truly barbaric act journalist and director of News La7 Enrico Mentana, with an editorial at the end of the evening edition of yesterday’s news, 19 June. Here’s what he said, as Today reports:
“Like all the workers of that company; like all the labourers, or almost all, who exist in our countryside from North to South, like many other illegal workers – we say irregular, invisible workers who exist in Italy – now we need to be very clear”.
“This is an episode, perhaps this one is particularly striking, but others happened yesterday, others will happen tomorrow in silence, indifference, in general unawareness. So, we talk about migrants many times. They are the subject of election campaigns for fear of their arrival and the image is never that of a Sinhalese or an Indian. It is that of a huge black African, who we associate with drug trafficking or violence of any kind. Also because this is the narrative rhetoric of these years, but we must know that a large part of the Italian economy revolves around these people, who we later discover are irregular, illegal and underpaid”.
“Once – he continues Mentana – it was pitifully said that they were called to Italy to do jobs that were stolen from Italians because they cost less. The truth we must tell ourselves is that many people, hundreds of thousands of irregular immigrants, are called by us to do the jobs that we no longer want to do. We have divided ourselves into two types of racists, if I can say it in these terms, those who really don’t want foreigners, migrants, and those who want them to do these jobs away from our eyes, away from our salary and even social security guarantees, doing those things that allow us to move forward.”
And again: “A country that dedicates itself only to the jobs that young Italians want to do without dedicating themselves to anything else, so much so are those who come to us in some way. And not just in the countryside. Sorry if I steal another second… There are cities in the north east, Monfalcone, where there is one Bangladeshi inhabitant, one immigrant from Bangladesh for every four Italians. And who called them? And what are they for? And then do we complain if there are many of them, or if all put together in a shantytown, they carry out their religious or other rites? What should they do? Stay silent and silent? And we called them to do what? The jobs we wanted to do or the ones we no longer want to do?”.
There journalist’s conclusion she is bitter: “This is neither right nor left… We heard the minister, we could hear opposition leaders. Some even brought to Parliament the one who was supposed to be the representative of these faceless people, you know how it ended. It’s just time that we all realize what we are and what our country has become.”
What do these words say to the world of schools?
Needless to say, the Mentana’s statements went viral and they made us reflect and move. These words also say a lot to the world of schools: the speech is about lost humanity and empathy, of racism, of intolerance, of safety at work. All aspects that we often hear about news episodes that take place within school walls.
This fact should not leave us indifferent, especially those who try to educate the little ones about kindness every day, to tolerance, respect towards others.
