An ambulance was called in this morning to help Sony, the wife of Satnam Singh, the Indian laborer mutilated and abandoned after an accident at work in Latina. The woman, in fact, felt bad, in a state of shock due to the death of her husband yesterday: she has not yet realized what happened.
Satnam Singh, who died after being dumped injured in front of his house. The employer’s father defends him: ‘It was the labourer’s carelessness’
edited by Roma editorial staff
June 20, 2024
The injuries sustained by the man were too serious, to his lower limbs but above all the amputation of his right arm, cleanly severed by a roller plastic wrapping machine towed by a tractor. Following the accident, instead of alerting the emergency services, the man was transported in a minibus in front of his home by the owner of the company, Antonello Lovato, who abandoned him there together with the limb, placed in a box used for harvesting vegetables.
“We could hear the screams of his wife who kept asking for help, then we saw a boy holding him in his arms and taking him behind the house. We thought he was helping him, but then he ran away” said Noemi Grifo and Ilario Pepe, the two boys who hosted Satnam Singh in a cottage behind their home and who were the first to call for help. “I immediately ran after him – continued Ilario -. I saw him getting into the van and I asked him what had happened and why he hadn’t taken him to hospital. He replied ‘he’s not in order with me’. He could have be helped.”
The secretary of the Democratic Party intervened on the matter Elly Schleinwho told Tg3: “Satnam Singh’s is a name that must not be forgotten because he did not have an accident at work, he was killed by the exploitation and inhumanity of those who left him in front of the house with his arm severed by a machinery, we cannot accept it. We will participate in the demonstration in Latina on Saturday, but we also want to stay because we need a permanent garrison to clear the Pontine countryside from gangmastering, exploitation, starvation wages, mafia involvement and also political connivance. that we sometimes see,” Schlein said.
“We are faced with an act of slavery, an illegal person dumped on the street with one arm inside a box to avoid being caught because he was working illegally. It is a situation of unprecedented gravity”, said the general secretary of the CGIL instead, Maurizio Landiniguest of the program The Air that blows on La7.
“We have entire parts of the economy,” Landini continued, “in which gangmastering and illegal work are the norm. There is a problem in guaranteeing housing, hospitality and dignity. The rules are there but they are not applied “. The trade union organisations, he added, “have asked for a meeting with the Minister of Agriculture and the Minister of Labour: the sector trade union organizations have been insisting for months, because the laws against gangmastering are there but we need to create the conditions under which they are apply”.
At the opening of the session, the Capitoline Assembly observed a minute’s silence for Satnam Singh, the Indian laborer who died after a serious accident at work in Latina. Roma Futura councilor Tiziana Biolghini requested it “to express all together indignation and commitment against this criminal system” of gangmastering. PD councilor Nella Converti joined in: “We must have the courage to call both the victims and the executioners by their names. For Satnam Singh we must not only be silent but make a lot of noise.”
In the morning, a demonstration was held by the FAI CISL of Latina in front of the prefecture of Latina, at which the general secretary of the Pontine union and that of the FAI CISL Islam Kotb were present.
