Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has
asked the consular offices of the Italian Embassy in India to
issue entry visas to the mother and sister of Soni, widow of
Satnam Singh, a Sikh farm labourer who died in a work accident
at Latina south of Rome last week in a shocking case that
returned the spotlight onto often brutal gangmastering in Italy,
foreign ministry sources said Monday.
Singh, 31, died of a massive haemorrhage after being dumped
outside his hut with his arm, severed by a fruit wrapping
machine, left placed on a picking basket beside him.
Soni's family members will be received as early as Tuesday at
the Italian diplomatic headquarters in New Delhi in the hope
that they will be able to arrive in Italy very soon to support
her at this difficult time, the sources added.
Mrs Singh suffered shock at finding her husband lying dying - he
perished two days later in a Rome hospital after desperate
attempts to save his life - outsid the hut they shared at Borgo
Santa Maria, one of the many hamlets in the Pontine Plain that
are home to thousands of exploited immigrant labourers.
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