The video shot at Rimini station and posted on TikTok by a young graduate has gone viral, with over 1.4 million views, nearly 6,000 comments, and over 3,500 shares.
"I wanted to be an entertainer, but I ran away," Gilberto says, explaining the nightmarish conditions he was offered: "€650 a month" and accommodation in a "moldy place." "Does that seem normal to you?" the young man asks on social media.
"Hi," he begins in the video, "I'm in Rimini. I was supposed to be an entertainer, but I'm running away because I have no intention of living in a crappy apartment and being paid a pittance . Now," the boy adds, "I'm attaching the photos" that scroll overlay, "and tell me if this seems normal to you. For 650 euros a month, living in a situation like this, underpaid, exploited, and catching the worst diseases ."
At the facility, he adds, "they told me I was too sensitive, that I couldn't adapt, but I challenge anyone to live for a month. I would have done a month, but there are even 16-year-olds in there who do two or three months, and I'm running away, I'm going home. I'm at the station."
"It's crazy," he continues. "They say there's no work in Italy. I believe you, the jobs we have are cheap. Someone should take the initiative immediately and do something: it's not a brain drain, we really need to escape here," he concludes.
(Unioneonline)