![The Lazio Indian Community Association organised a protest for Satnam Singh, the 31-year-old labourer who died after being abandoned in front of his house by his employer after losing his right arm in an accident on a farm in Borgo Santa Maria. (Image: AFP) The Lazio Indian Community Association organised a protest for Satnam Singh, the 31-year-old labourer who died after being abandoned in front of his house by his employer after losing his right arm in an accident on a farm in Borgo Santa Maria. (Image: AFP)](https://images.news18.com/ibnlive/uploads/2021/07/1627283897_news18_logo-1200x800.jpg?impolicy=website&width=510&height=383)
The Lazio Indian Community Association organised a protest for Satnam Singh, the 31-year-old labourer who died after being abandoned in front of his house by his employer after losing his right arm in an accident on a farm in Borgo Santa Maria. (Image: AFP)
Satnam Singh bled to death when his arm was cut off by a piece of farm equipment.
Italian police arrested a farm owner on Tuesday on suspicion of homicide after one of his workers, an undocumented labourer from India, bled to death when his arm was cut off by a piece of farm equipment. The landowner abandoned the bleeding worker and failed to call an ambulance, prosecutors said.
The death of Satnam Singh has shocked Italians and sparked protests by unions and farm workers demanding better working conditions. They have called for an end to the exploitative “caporalato” system of using underpaid migrant labour to work in Italy’s agriculture industry.
Even President Sergio Mattarella has weighed in on the case, referring to what he said was the “cruel” exploitation of workers like Singh and “inhuman” conditions in which seasonal farm hands often work in Italy.
Carabinieri police in Latina, a largely agricultural province south of Rome, arrested farm owner Antonello Lovato after prosecutors bumped up the original suspected crime of manslaughter to homicide with “malice afterthought,” a statement from Latina prosecutors said.