Italian Farmer Jailed for 16 Years for Abandoning Injured Indian Worker
Prosecutors had sought 22 years, and the case fueled debate over conditions for Italy’s 240,000 farm workers, watchdog data showed.
- On Wednesday, July 8, Italian farmer Antonello Lovato was sentenced to 16 years in jail for abandoning Satnam Singh, a 31-year-old Indian worker who died after a severe farm accident near Rome.
- In June 2024, Singh suffered a severed arm and crushed legs when a machine accident tore through his body; Lovato abandoned him and his wife by the roadside without medical help instead of seeking hospital care.
- The Latina public prosecutor's office stated Singh died "of severe haemorrhaging" and "would very likely have been saved" had he received prompt medical attention, citing the forensic report.
- Thousands of Indian farm workers demonstrated in Latina demanding justice and calling for an end to what they described as "slavery" in the Italian agricultural sector.
- Italian agriculture employs around 240,000 seasonal workers, yet the Placido Rizzotto Observatory reports that workplace inspections remain rare, exposing systemic vulnerabilities across the sector.
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Agricultural exploitation: Two years ago, employer Antonello Lovato offered no help to Indian worker Satnam Singh, who after a work accident…
In the face of dramatic events such as that of Satnam Singh, left to bleed to death after a very serious accident at work, the risk is to confuse the gravity of the murder with the phenomenon of occupational exploitation, overlapping different plans. Again we record, by the secretary of the Cgil Landini, a stereotyped reaction that tends to associate the occupational irregularity of the immigrant with the same ferocity that characterized the cri…
The death of Indian harvester Satnam Singh shocked Italy: After a serious work accident, his employer left him severely injured. Now the farmer was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
After an accident, the farmer loaded the man into a van, along with his severed arm in a plastic crate, and left him at his front door.
The Indian worker lost his right arm in an accident and squashed his legs. The farmer did not take him to the hospital.
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