Singh killed by criminal says Lollobrigida

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 21 - The death of Satnam Singh, a 31-year-old Indian farm labourer left to bleed out after a strawberry wrapping machine severed his arm at Latina Monday, was "the fault of a criminal", the employer who dumped him at his hut at the town south of Rome with the amputated limb resting on a picking box, Farm Minister Francesco Lollobrigida said Friday.
    But Singh's death "through the fault of a criminal" must not lead to criminalising all agricultural enterprises amid calls to stamp out gangmastering, said Lollobrigida, Premier Giorg ia Meloni's brother in law and a bigwig in her rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party.
    Speaking at a press conference with Labour Minister Marina Calderone after talks on Singh's death and gangmastering with unions and employers, Lollobrigida said: "In these situations it can happen that there is a criminalisation of one of the links in the chain.
    "It can happen, therefore, that when faced with serious episodes like the one at Latina, all the agricultural enterprises are criminalised.
    "These deaths aren't the fault of agricultural entrepreneurs.
    "They are the fault of criminals". (ANSA).