Caporalato, “workers holding prefect wife in property fields”

“Saidy brought the laborers to the fields, after having recruited them, following the request for labor advanced by Livrerio Bisceglia who communicated by telephone the number of workers needed on the fields where the laborers were controlled and managed by Bisceglia Matteo and hired through documents provided by Saidy who received the remuneration from Livrerio Bisceglia and subsequently distributed and who charged the amount of 5 euros from each laborer for the intermediation activity “. This is what is read in the precautionary custody order in prison against 16 people (two in prison, three under house arrest and eleven between residence obligations and reporting obligations to the judicial police) at the origin of the anti-gang-taking operation that it also involved the wife of the prefect Michele Di Bari, head of the Department for Civil Liberties and Immigration of the Ministry of the Interior. The workforce, “made up of dozens of workers of various ethnic groups” was destined “for the cultivation of agricultural land owned, or in any case in its availability”, subjecting the workers to “conditions of exploitation”.