100 Polish slave labourers murdered in Italian “concentration camps”

More than a hundred Poles, lured to Italy by the promise of work, have disappeared there, according to the website of the Polish police. It is feared some were murdered while working like slave labourers in the tomato fields of Puglia. Half of the missing are believed to have taken jobs on tomato farms around the city of Foggia in Puglia, which employ up to 7,000 workers at a time. In July Italian and Polish police seized 25 people after an inquiry revealed that thousands of Poles had been hired to work on farms that had been described by the chief organised crime prosecutor of Italy as “out and out concentration camps”.

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