The Indian laborer who last week died after a work accident on a farm in central Italy, and who was left abandoned on the street with a severed arm by his boss, he bled to death due to hemorrhageaccording to the preliminary results of the autopsy that were released this Monday.

While the controversy over the case continues, the confirmation of his death due to hemorrhage could be related to the fact that the worker – employed without a contract on a farm in Lazio, in central Italy – did not receive medical assistance nor was he taken to the hospital afterwards. about what an agricultural machine will cut off his arm. His boss, the son of the owner of the farm in the province of Latina, left him lying in front of his house next to a box of fruit with an amputated arm and he left.

The victim, called Satnam Singh and 31 years old, he worked without a contract. This time is considered key to being able to provide emergency care and save his life. However, he was admitted very late and in serious condition to the hospital, where he died last Wednesday. For this reason, the boss is now accused of homicide, negligence and failure to provide relief.

The outrage over what happened has once again highlighted the issue of the so-called ‘caporalato’, an illegal system of migrant labor exploitation widespread in Italian agriculture.

In Lazio, this reality is especially widespread in the province of Latina, one of the main agricultural centers in the region, where a large part of the exploited migrant workers are Indian citizens, in many cases without a contract, and who work 12 hours or more per day for a salary of about five euros per hour. According to data from the CGIL, Italy’s main union, around 30,000 Indian citizens work in the areain addition to thousands of other migrants from other countries such as Bangladesh.

It is estimated that around 40% of workers in the agricultural sector in the main regions of southern and central Italy have an irregular contract or no contract at all, a figure that is around 20 or 30% in the areas from the central-north. In Italy’s primary sector as a whole, this affects around 230,000 people, around a quarter of all workers.

Given the controversy over the death of the Indian day laborer, the CGIL union demonstrated with the support of opposition parties such as the Democratic Party last Saturday in the city of Latina, where it is expected that this Tuesday there will be a protest by the indian community with support from other union groups.