The instructions, before leaving the barracks on Via Nuoro at 6 p.m. on a weekend, were clear: "We check the riders before they pick up their meals for delivery. We mustn't cause any disruption or inconvenience to their work."

In a meeting with officers from the Stampace, Sant'Avendrace, and Villanova stations, and colleagues from the Labor Inspectorate, the commander of the Cagliari company, Simone Anelli, outlined the objectives of the service ordered by the provincial commander, Luigi Grasso: verifying the documents of couriers and their vehicles, verifying the legality of employment contracts, and verifying relationships with the various companies that own home delivery platforms for food and ready meals.

And gather investigative evidence on suspicions of the existence, even in Cagliari, of digital gangmastering, an illegal market for rented accounts, starvation wages, endless shifts, and delivery management held hostage by algorithms.

Crimes and problems already uncovered by an investigation by the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office.