Four Pakistani Farm Workers Murdered in Italy
CCTV footage showed the suspects blocking the van’s doors and pouring liquid inside, as police said a dispute over transport money may have sparked the attack.
- On Tuesday, Italian police arrested two Pakistani nationals for the murder of four Pakistani farm workers found dead in a burnt-out minivan near Amendolara, Calabria.
- Recent months saw 14 arson cases involving vehicles carrying Pakistanis in the farming region, reflecting tensions over labor disputes, residency papers, and accommodation among migrant workers.
- CCTV footage showed two people blocking the van's doors and throwing liquid inside, while a survivor from Afghanistan escaped by breaking a window and reported a dispute over transportation money and unpaid wages.
- Calabria's regional president, Roberto Occhiuto, said the attack "shakes faith in humanity," while The CGIL union demanded action to "combat the abominations of daily life endured by workers, often migrants, in our countryside."
- Local police chief Antonio Borelli confirmed the incident is "definitely murder," as investigators pursue homicide charges following the discovery of the four charred bodies inside the minivan.
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Four migrant farm workers were burned to death in a car at a gas station in Amendolare, Calabria, Italy, on Monday. Two Pakistanis have been charged with their murders. The sole survivor of the attack claims the Pakistani mafia was behind it. The case in Italy has once again highlighted the long-standing problem of migrant abuse in agriculture.
In the aftermath of the murder of Amendolara cost the lives of four immigrant farm workers killed by their two 'caporals', Monsignor Francesco ...
According to Italian media, the quadruple murder is said to be the result of a long-running conflict in Calabrian agriculture.
Two men of Pakistani nationality were arrested last Monday, accused of killing four day laborers — three Afghans and one Pakistani — by setting fire to the car in which they were travelling and in which they died charred. The brutal event, recorded in Amendolara, a town in Calabria, in southern Italy, has once again put the focus on the exploitation of migrants in the camps of the country.
Italy is shocked. It looked like an accident. A van was burning under the marquee of a gas station in State 106, at the height of Amendolara, in the province of Cosenza, in an area already hit by the Calabrese mafia, the Ndrangheta. Firefighters arrived, extinguished the fire, and when the smoke dissipated there was no longer any doubt: inside there were four people charred.Keep reading....
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