Lecce, died in the fields while working in the scorching heat: two sentences of 14 years and 6 months - Il Fatto Quotidiano

Il Fatto Quotidiano

Lecce, died in the fields while working in the scorching heat: two sentences of 14 years and 6 months - Il Fatto Quotidiano

He died of an illness in the countryside between Nardò and Avetrana, in Salento, while he was picking tomatoes on a day of scorching heat, with the temperature close to 40 degrees. It was July 20, 2015. Seven years after the death of Mohammed Abdullah, a 47-year-old Sudanese labourer, the judges of the Lecce Assize Court have each sentenced Giuseppe Mariano and Mohamed Elsalih to 14 years and six months in prison. The first, 82, is an agricultur…