Hello and welcome to focus on europe im Michelle Henery glad you could join us slavery is a thing of the past in europe or so one thought its back in the fields of italy the victims are mostly migrants almost one hundred thousand arrived on the italian coast this year alone in search of a better life many did not survive the journey. And for those who made it the plight continues more and more end up on huge plantations in southern italy where they toil seven days a week in human conditions without water electricity or adequate food some of those responsible have now been formally charged with enslavement our reporter went there to find out how this could have happened in modern day europe. The grand ghetto near italy Southern City of fudge is home to some fifteen hundred people during harvest time although home is hardly the right word the migrant laborers from africa live here in appalling conditions they earn up to a maximum of twenty euros a day not enough to afford a proper place
Out how this could have happened in modernday europe. The gran ghetto near italys Southern City of foggia is home to some 1500 people during harvest time. Although home is hardly the right word. The migrant labourers from africa live here in appalling conditions. They earn up to a maximum of 20 euros a day. Not enough to afford a proper place to live. Three of us sleep here. This is the kitchen where we make food. We have rice. And oil, thats it. Recently the water supply was cut off here. But the migrants stayed anyway. Partly because they arent the only ones who depend on their meagre wages. If i dont work here, whos going to feed my children in africa . Sometimes i send 200 euros home, sometimes 150. If i earn two hundred, i keep hundred and send a hundred back home. In many of southern italys plantations, its day labourers om aica who douch the work. Theyome re ithei thousands. Modernday slaves, exploited by unscrupulous farmers. In the town of nardo in apulia, a Police Video Shows
The gran ghetto near italys Southern City of foggia is home to some 1500 people during harvest time. Although home is hardly the right word. The migrant labourers from africa live here in appalling conditions. They earn up to a maximum of 20 euros a da not enough to afford a proper place to live. Three of us sleep here. This is the kitchen where we make food. We have rice. And oil, thats it. Recently the water supply was cut off here. But the migrants stayed anyway. Partly because they arent the only ones who depend on their meagre wages. If i dont work here, whos going to feed my children in africa . Sometimes i send 200 euros home, sometimes 150. If i earn two hundred, i keep hundred and send a hundred back home. In many of southern italys plantations, its day labourers from africa who do much of the work. They come here in their thousands. Modernday slaves, exploited by unscrupulous farmers. In the town of nardo in apulia, a Police Video Shows the ramshackle accommodation given to f
The gran ghetto near italys Southern City of foggia is home to some 1500 people during harvest time. Although home is hardly the right word. The migrant labourers from africa live here in appalling conditions. They earn up to a maximum of 20 euros a day. Not enough to afford a proper place to live. Three of us sleep here. This is the kitchen where we make food. We have rice. And oil, thats it. Recently the water supply was cut off here. But the migrants stayed anyway. Partly because they arent the only ones who depend on their meagre wages. If i dont work here, whos going to feed my children in africa . Sometimes i send 200 euros home, sometimes 150. If i earn two hundred, i keep hundred and send a hundred back home. In many of southern italys plantations, its day labourers from africa who do much of the work. They come here in their thousands. Modernday slaves, exploited by unscrupulous farmers. In the town of nardo in apulia, a Police Video Shows the ramshackle accommodation given to
The gran ghetto near italys Southern City of foggia is home to some 1500 people during harvest time. Although home is hardly the right word. The migrant labourers from africa live here in appalling conditions. They earn up to a maximum of 20 euros a day. Not enough to afford a proper place to live. Three of us sleep here. This is the kitchen where we make food. We have rice. And oil, thats it. Recently the water supply was cut off here. But the migrants stayed anyway. Partly because they arent the only ones who depend on their meagre wages. If i dont work here, whos going to feed my children in africa . Sometimes i send 200 euros home, sometimes 150. If i earn two hundred, i keep hundred and send a hundred back home. In many of southern italys plantations, its day labourers from africa who do much of the work. They come here in their thousands. Modernday slaves, exploited by unscrupulous farmers. In the town of nardo in apulia, a Police Video Shows the ramshackle accommodation given sl