The Italian authorities have carried out four arrests in the city of Taranto in southern Italy as part of an operation against an alleged gang organizing fake marriages to get working papers for migrants and who also managed a prostitution ring.
InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/05/14
Police in northeastern Italy have arrested two people accused of exploiting dozens of Pakistani migrant farmworkers. The laborers were reportedly underpaid, had to work without any coronavirus protections, and forced to pay for rooms in extremely run-down buildings.
Police in the Veneto region arrested two Pakistani nationals on Wednesday. They are accused of exploitating dozens of fellow Pakistani nationals.
An investigation into their operation was conducted between October and February after checks at agricultural businesses in the provinces around the cities of Treviso, Pordenone and Udine near Venice, in northeastern Italy led to the discovery of a business headquartered in Cessalto (Treviso) that recruited Pakistani farmworkers.
Italian agricultural organization Coldiretti said the region of Apulia, in southern Italy, has been assigned 320 additional non-EU laborers for farm work in the region, which is in serious difficulty due to the coronavirus pandemic.
After more than 2,000 migrants landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa over the weekend, various EU member states have reacted to the situation. Italy is calling once again for EU solidarity, but how would it be enacted and which member states will come forward to help?
InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/05/12
Four Italian businessmen and an Indian citizen were convicted and sentenced to prison in Calabria for facilitating undocumented migration. The group allegedly brought non-EU citizens to Italy on fake job contracts.
The Court of Assizes in Reggio Calabria on Monday, May 10 sentenced Antonio Scimone, charged with facilitating undocumented migration, to four years and two months in jail. An additional charge of association to commit a crime didn t hold up because of the statute of limitations.
The sentence came at the conclusion of a trial in which Judge Ornella Pastore upheld appeals by public prosecutor Sara Amerio. Judge Pastore also convicted Domenico Cosmo, Paolo Perre and Carlo Lombardo, and sentenced them to prison terms ranging from three years and nine months to four years and eight months.