Police in Italy seized 14 farms and arrested 60 people on Wednesday in a raid to stop the exploitation of field workers, most of them illegal migrants.
The early morning raid targeted farms in the poor southern regions of Calabria and Basilicata, run by a criminal racket and valued at 8 million euros , police said in a statement.
The raid came after Italy's government decided in May to temporarily allow the regularisation of illegal farm workers, in part to help farm owners who found themselves without their regular foreign workforce during Italy's coronavirus lockdown.Thousands of illegal temporary farmhands from Africa and eastern Europe pick fruit and vegetables in Italy. They are often paid low wages and live in substandard conditions in makeshift camps.
La Repubblica daily reported on Tuesday that only 9,500 applications for regularisation had been filed, out of a potential pool of 220,000 workers estimated by the government."This regulation contains conditions of social justice: whatever the result, it will never be a flop," Bellanova told the daily.
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