• Two deaths in slums in the Foggia area
  • Migrants. Slums in Foggia on fire, seriously injured
  • Flames in the migrant slum dies in Foggia

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June 12, 2020 A person probably of Senegalese origin died in the fire that broke out at dawn today inside a shack that is located in the ghetto of Borgo Mezzanone, the illegal settlement that arose in the Foggiano area. The victim has not yet been identified.

As far as he learns, the flames have enveloped a makeshift house which is located in a rather isolated area of ​​the "former runway", where many citizens of Senegalese origin would reside. In a year and a half, she is the fourth victim recorded in the ghetto following fires in the slum.

The general secretaries of CGIL Puglia, Pino Gesmundo, and Flai CGIL Puglia, Antonio Gagliardi commented on the tragedy. "The umpteenth tragedy in Borgo Mezzanone, the umpteenth life of a foreign worker lost in the stake of his shack after a similar event occurred just over a month ago, are the photograph of how the arms market serving the agriculture continues regardless of the daily commitment of associations, unions, rules that should push for regularization and emergence ".

"The existence of the ghetto itself - they continue - certifies the role and weight that the corporals still play. It is the reason why we have always denounced how the phenomenon can be overcome only if attacked as a whole, intervention on the brokerage of labor, on the reception, on the transport service ".

"To those who in a propagandistic and simplistic way invoke evictions - they add - we remember how Borgo Mezzanone or other ghettos are the demonstration that that mass of immigrant workers without accommodation takes very few days to raise similar settlements elsewhere. It is evident how those conditions are unsustainable, but all institutions - from the government to the region to local authorities - have been promising alternative solutions for too long ".

"We are close to yet another great harvest season - they conclude - and the
solutions put in place are evident as they are insufficient to give answers to all workers".

Even the national spokesman of the Italian Left, Nicola Fratoianni, speaks of "yet another tragedy in the ghetto of Borgo Mezzanone, in the province of Foggia. Yet another fire that devours barracks and takes away the life of a laborer, of whom we do not even know the name. Enough, really: I tell the majority and the government ". "We need more courageous and universal measures - he continues - for the recognition of the rights of migrants. And it is necessary that it is politics, not the business system, that fully takes charge of them." "Hiring and exploitation must be eradicated with strong political choices - Fratoianni concludes - which we have been talking about for years. It is a time of courage".