A video circulating online showing a
trucker whipping a group of Eritrean and Ethiopian women with a
belt after he found them in his lorry trying to cross the border
to France at Ventimiglia has caused widespread shock and
indignation in Italy.
Italian police are looking into the incident and trying to
identify the trucker, who is thought to be Bulgarian.
"The images of the truck driver filmed while whipping migrants
in Ventimiglia were ugly, uncivilized and inhumane," said former
labour minister Andrea Orlando, an MP for the centre-left
Democratic Party (PD).
"This is what happens when the migrant issue continues to be
managed as a problem, with the Right having made it a political
target throughout Europe".
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