Novara, trade unionist run over by trucks during the demonstration. "The truck forced the blockade"

• Clashes with logistics workers in the Lodi area, one seriously injured

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June 18, 2021 "The

, including Adil", reports Si Cobas, regarding the death of Adil, 37-year-old of Moroccan origin, coordinator of the union for Novara, who lost the street during the demonstration in progress in front of the gates of the Lidl of Biandrate.

The maneuvering truck hit the trade unionist, hit two other demonstrators who were injured and transported to hospital (their conditions are not serious), and then left. The aid of the 118 health workers was useless, the man died. The vehicle was stopped shortly after by the carabinieri in a service area.

"I am very saddened by the death of Adil Belakhdim. It is necessary that we immediately shed light on what happened", is the declaration of

. "It is not possible to go on like this. We need a social pact that recognizes the centrality of work against all forms of devaluation and brutal exploitation. Let's get ready to support the demonstrations organized by the trade unions for June 26",

.

The truck driver who hit and killed the trade unionist is in the barracks to be heard by the carabinieri of the Novara provincial command. At the moment no action has been taken against him. On the other hand, tension between the demonstrators is growing at the scene of the accident. One of them, which was near the victim when she was hit by the truck, got sick and in shock, was rescued by the personnel of 118.

"We have decided to immediately proclaim a strike for the category: the workers are blocking all entrances and exits of the Biandrate plant," Attilio Fasulo, general secretary of the CGIL of Novara, told AGI, who from the first moments following the dramatic episode costing the life of Adil Belakhdim went to Biandrate. "What happened - he adds - is an unacceptable tragedy. Also because both the protagonists, the dead worker and the truck driver, are two victims. In this period in the logistics sector there is a lot of tension with a strong confrontation trade union organization.Filcams CGIL has for some time been asking for better working conditions and for workers to recognize levels of employment that are currently not recognized. "Meanwhile, at the place of the death of the young trade unionist, surveys are underway by the police. Always according to the testimonies collected, the trade unionist would have been overwhelmed and dragged for about ten meters, up to the height of the pedestrian crossing: for this reason in the first few minutes he had imagined that he was crossing the street.that is why in the first few minutes he had imagined that he was crossing the street.that is why in the first few minutes he had imagined that he was crossing the street.

The story also rekindles a lighthouse on clashes and scuffles during a garrison organized by Si Cobas in front of a logistics warehouse in Tavazzano di Villasesco, in the province of Lodi. In a story whose contours are still to be clarified, a worker, Abdelhamid Elazab, was seriously injured, who - according to union sources - was hit in the face by a piece of pallet thrown by the factory's private guards.