Bracciante died from the suffocating heat, the entrepreneur who had hired him was sentenced to Lecce

Heavy sentences in Lecce for the

of

, the 47-year-old Sudanese laborer who died of illness in the early afternoon of 20 July 2015 in the countryside between Nardò and Avetrana, in Salento,

, with the temperature close to 40 degrees.

The judges of the Court of Assizes (President Pietro Baffa) each sentenced

Giuseppe Mariano, 82, an agricultural entrepreneur from Porto Cesareo (Lecce), and Mohamed Elsalih, 42, originally from Sudan, to

. a mediator for the arrivals of seasonal laborers in Salento to be employed in the harvest in the fields.

The two were found guilty of

.

Both were barred from holding public office.