Polish labourers kept in Italian ‘prison camp’

· Poles beaten and fed on bread and water by gang
· 24 held after raids but seven mobsters at large
Polish farmworkers who travelled to southern Italy were kept in a “concentration camp” where they were fed on little more than bread and water, expected to labour in the fields for up to 15 hours a day, and beaten by guards who called themselves kapos, it was revealed yesterday. Police across Europe were hunting seven mobsters who escaped when Italian Carabinieri raided the camp at dawn on Tuesday. Sixteen others – 15 Poles and an Italian – were jailed in Italy and a further nine people were arrested in Poland as part of an extensive cross-border operation.

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