Storm over the Head of the Civil Liberties and Immigration Department of the Interior Ministry.
The wife of the prefect Michele Di Bari has to answer for the charge of illegal hiring: she too is among the 16 people investigated in an investigation by the Carabinieri and the Foggia prosecutor's office.
News that forced the Head of Department to resign, as announced by the Interior Ministry.
ARRESTS - The investigation refers to events that occurred between July and October 2020 and also led to a judicial verification on over ten farms attributable to some of the suspects.
Five people were arrested, two of whom were in prison, namely a Senegalese and a Gambian.
House arrest was ordered for the other three arrested. For the other 11 suspects, including the wife of the prefect Di Bari, the obligation to sign is triggered.
The woman, Rosalba Livrerio Bisceglia, was "aware of the modalities of the recruitment and exploitation", writes the investigating magistrate of the Foggia court in the order against the suspects for the investigation into the criminal offense. He employed in his company "manpower consisting of dozens of workers of various ethnic groups" for the cultivation of the fields "subjecting the aforementioned workers to the conditions of exploitation" inferable "also from the working conditions (salary, hygiene, safety, healthiness of the place of work) and taking advantage of their state of need deriving from precarious living conditions ".
(Unioneonline / D)