If it is tragic and unworthy death of Satnam Singh, the 31-year-old Indian laborer who lost his arm while working as a labourer, deserves a reflection without ideological nuances, our political debate offers us a merciless spectacle. The terrible story of Latin becomes yet another pretext for conflict on immigration and, obviously, an instrument to be hurled against the executive led by Giorgia Melonthe. We also find ourselves jumping on the controversy bandwagon Aboubakar Soumahoroformer Avs icon now looking for new political spaces.
“Satnam Singh, a 31-year-old Indian laborer, is unfortunately yet another victim in the food supply chain”, begins the former exponent nominated by the red-green duo, Nicola Fratoianni and Angelo Bonelli. Then, shortly after, comes the accusation: “For more than ten years, we have been loudly asking, together with workers, to regularize all the invisible people in our countryside, from north to south, because it is the only way to free them from illegality and recognize their rights and dignity”. From here Soumahoro’s vague attack becomes an arrow to be shot at the Meloni-branded executive.
“Unfortunately – he reiterates – lthe current government did not accept my agenda which asked to introduce the food license into our system, to guarantee fair and equitable remuneration for the work carried out by producers and farmers and a decent wage for labourers, in order to guarantee ethical food”. In short, it’s all the centre-right government’s fault. “Through the regularization of invisible migrants and the introduction of a Food License, exploitation could be counteracted by avoiding deaths at work, as happened to Satnam Singh in the Latina countryside”.
A clear stance which, regardless of the merits of the issue, has a single ideological recipient: the Prime Minister and his ministers. “Those who know our country’s agri-food system well – concludes the former Avs – know that the only way to fight gangmastering is to counteract the injustices and distortions that occur in the food supply chain.
In fact, the agri-food distribution giants impose low prices on farmers who in turn crush the laborers with low wages.” And with a few words Soumahoro managed, more or less voluntarily, to transform a tragic news story into a political battleground no holds barred.
