For three years he remained in conditions of slavery, threatened and beaten with such violence that it caused wounds that disfigured him and changed his body and face forever .
The 45-year-old, with mental problems, was supposed to take care of the animals but had not been hired with a regular contract. He lived in a dilapidated farmhouse built near a pigsty and a horse stable . In a condition of total subjection towards his tormentors, who often beat him, accusing him of not looking after the animals well .
The man managed to escape at the end of 2023 thanks to the intervention of his sister and denounced the people who had enslaved him, a 44-year-old farmer and his 35-year-old partner .
The forensic examination to which the victim was subjected highlighted all the serious injuries sustained in these three years of slavery: the lack of a phalanx of the hand, pieces of ears, even burns attributable to a blowtorch . Mai was treated in hospital, so he also risked infections that could have led to his death.
Now the man lives with his sister and his situation has been reported to social services.
Today, at the conclusion of the investigations coordinated by the DDA of Cagliari, the blitz began in Villasor ( HERE the news of the arrest ), in the rural town of Bruncu Su Laccu, where the carabinieri arrested the farmer and his 35-year-old partner on charges , among others, of very serious injuries and reduction into slavery. He was taken to cell, she is under house arrest .
The two had also set up an illegal scrapyard on the land: 30 tons of materials including cars, scrap, spare parts, carcasses and engine parts . Everything was sold on the web, and the two were also reported for unauthorized management of special waste.
(Unioneonline/L)
