Laborer died in the scorching heat: two sentences of 14 years

14 years and six months' imprisonment plus disqualification from public office.

This is the sentence imposed by the Court of Assizes of Lecce on Giuseppe Mariano , 82 years old, agricultural entrepreneur from Porto Cesareo, and Mohamed Elsalih , 42 years old originally from Sudan, mediator for the arrivals of farm laborers in Salento.

He was accused of enslavement and manslaughter for the death of Mohammed Abdullah , a 47-year-old Sudanese farmhand, who died following an illness in the early afternoon of 20 July 2015 in the countryside between Nardò and Avetrana, in Salento, while picking tomatoes in a day with torrid heat, with the temperature close to 40 degrees .

(Unioneonline/lf)