Italian police have liberated 113 Polish workers from forced labour camps in southern Italy where they were reportedly raped and tortured if unwilling to work, with four cases of suicide being investigated.
"We are talking about conditions similar to those of concentration camps where people were not only exploited for their work but also kept in a state of slavery," Italian prosecutor Piero Grasso said following the operation on Tuesday (18 July), according to Reuters.
The "labo...
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