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The foreman pushes you.

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He sees tomatoes on the ground [br]and screams,

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"Pick them up!"

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If there are any left over, he pushes you [br]and slaps you.

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He hurts you, he doesn't respect you. [br]That is slavery.

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Slavery, not just exploitation.

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Exploitation is unfair wages, but if they[br]push you,

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you don't have papers and you sleep in [br]the ghetto, that is slavery,

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you don't have papers and you sleep in[br]ghettos - that's slavery.

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Modern day slavery does not require [br]chains.

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What is happening here is slavery.

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Slavery in Italy

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A report by [br]Katrin Sandmann and Fritz Schapp

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Yvan Sagnet refers to the over 400,000 [br]african and eastern-workers

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that work in the Italian agriculture [br]industry as slaves.

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This man from Cameroon used to be [br]one of them.

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Today, I fight for their rights [br]against mafia-like unfair competition,

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abuse of power and exploitation

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Sañe wants to send the exploiters[br]to prison and put an end

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to the inhumane living condiitons[br]of these workers.

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These are typical living conditions[br]for the immigrants.

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They use the fireplace for everything as[br]there's no power, light or running water.

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Nothing at all.

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But they improvise; they use the fireplace[br]to heat and cook.

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This is used as a table.[br]There's not even any oil.

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And these are the plates they eat off.

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Look, there are eight mattresses.

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40 people may sleep here.

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See them?

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They put 40 people in this room.

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Plaster may fall on them as[br]they sleep

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and it's too cold.

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There's no glass in the windows. They're[br]covered with a metal sheet.

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The immigrants have to buy

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almost everything they need to survive

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from intermediaries called foremen.

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Sometimes they come from the same[br]countries as the workers.

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For a rotten mattress, they ask[br]for 10 euros.

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Italians live in that yellow house.[br]No foreigners, Italians.

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But they get on with the foremen.

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It's the only house in the area with[br]running water and power.

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The ones who live here have to go there[br]to charge their phones, for example.

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Because there's nothing here.

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And they charge 50 cents for each charge[br]and €1 or €1.50 to have a wash.

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It makes me cry. I am so disgusted[br]when I see that there are

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people who have to live in these[br]conditions in 21st century Italy.

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It's horrible, it's dreadful, and everyone[br]knows it.

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Everyone knows it but they don't care[br]because it's about immigrants.

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They treat immigrants like animals.

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They only want them to work so

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the farmers' and politicians' businesses[br]make money.

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They aren't considered human.

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This is Italy, welcome to Italy.

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The immigrants that live here are totally[br]controlled by the foremen

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who are organised like a kind of mafia.

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When the farmers need labour[br]for the fields,

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they call the intermediaries who abuse[br]their power

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to exploit and control the migrants.

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And they can do it because they live[br]alongside them in the ghettos.

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The regions of Apulia and Basilicata in[br]the south of Italy

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are the country's biggest vegetable[br]producers.

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30% of Italian tomatoes are harvested[br]in Apulia alone.

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The large ghettos are often found[br]in the isolated areas

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which surround the fields.

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Cities of misery grow there.

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If we go in, we'll have to use a hidden[br]camera. Put the big camera down.

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The foremen don't like camaras.

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They'd show their illegal business.

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And the immigrants are ashamed to be seen[br]living in the ghettos.

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They are ashamed to be recorded.

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They'd be ashamed if people in their[br]country could see them like this.

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Because every time they speak to their[br]parents, they tell them a completely

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different story where they are lawyers[br]or work in an office.

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They lie simply because they're ashamed[br]to admit

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what their life is really like.

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During the harvest, more than[br]3,000 people live here.

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Most of them are from Africa.

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They are people who arrived on the[br]coasts of Italy decades ago,

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the immigrants who Europe has been[br]abandoning to Italy for years.

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Some have papers. Others are illegal.

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The Italian government looks the other way[br]because without cheap labour,

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the harvests would go to waste.

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There's rubbish everywhere,[br]it attracts flies and mosquitos.

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In these ghettos, there's neither[br]rubbish collection nor laws.

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This land, where the strongest rule,[br]is dangerous for Yvan.

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He suspects this is where the[br]death threats are coming from.

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The foremen who live here know[br]that he's the most determined enemy.

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Yvan has spent years gathering proof of[br]their illegal behaviour in such fields.

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He's looking for witnesses and[br]identifying criminals.

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That's why he knows many of the[br]inhabitants and their stories,

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like the one of this man from Sudan.

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He fled to Italy 20 years ago.

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His European dream ended in a hut[br]where he sells second hand clothes.

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His customers are refugees from[br]all around the world.

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Suddenly a man approaches Yvan.[br]He's a foreman.

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He exaggerates his nervousness, but[br]he urges us to leave.

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We want to put an end to these ghettos[br]once and for all.

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We demand structures, water, light[br]kitchens, decent bedrooms,

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and my dream is to achieve all this[br]with NOCAP.

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Roma. Yvan Sagnet lives and works in the[br]city centre, near the Vatican.

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Here in his apartment, he founded NOCAP,

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a certification system for[br]ethically-produced food.

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NOCAP is based on article 4 of the[br]universal declaration of human rights,

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which says "No one shall be held[br]in slavery or servitude;

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slavery and the slave trade shall be[br]prohibited in all their forms."

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NOCAP is an organisation that says "no"[br]to the foreman system,

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and opposes it with a labelling system.

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We put these labels on products from all[br]the farmers who don't exploit

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their workers, after checking that[br]they respect the workers' rights.

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We have started a collaboration with[br]an association of small farmers

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called "Altra-Agricultura".

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There are sixty thousand producers.

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That's how we've started with a small[br]and solid base.

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Yvan's commitment to human rights and[br]his bravery when it comes to calling out

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and reporting the mafioso structures[br]in agriculture

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is valued by the Italian president,

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Sergio Matarella, who awarded him a[br]a knighthood in 2017.

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It was a great moment in my life.

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It was an amazing moment, because I[br]received recognition from a country

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of which I don't have citizenship.

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I'm not Italian, I'm still Camaroonian[br]at the moment.

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And receiving an award from Italy made[br]me so happy.

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[Singing in Italian]

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In 2017, Yvan is a father. It's a year[br]full of happiness.

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But it is overshadowed by death threats.

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His enemies know that Yvan is ready to[br]take them to the supreme court.

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Verónica, his wife,[br]fears the consequences.

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[Singing in Italian]

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Unfortunately, the death threats indicate[br]how well he's doing his job,

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how much he's obstructing the[br]interests of the powerful.

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And naturally, as his family,[br]that worries us.

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Especially when he goes to the places[br]those death threats come from.

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We pray for him so that he might achieve[br]what he wants without coming to harm.

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Yvan has proved that he's very brave[br]and tenacious,

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and he's shown us that it's possible[br]to change things, little by little,

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by working hard and making sacrifices.

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And he has my support in that battle[br]he fights every day.

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In 2017, Yvan arrived in Italy,[br]the country he'd admired since childhood,

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not to fight, but to study.

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It was all going well until he failed[br]an exam

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and lost his grant at Turin University.

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His desperate search for work led[br]him to Nardó, in the south,

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to the tomato harvest.

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Yvan Sagnet arrived at this farm on[br]10 July 2011,

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and something happened that changed[br]his life forever.

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Today, this 33 year-old is returning[br]to the outskirts of the place

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where, at the time, there were thousands[br]of African workers in dome tents,

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under plastic covers or outdoors.

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This was incredibly dirty and[br]it was very hot,

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and I asked God, "What is this? Where have[br]I ended up?"

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I'd been living in a normal environment[br]in Turin,

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where I was living in normal house,[br]a student residence

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with a bath, my own room, a bed.

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And suddenly I found myself in a place[br]sleeping on a mattress outdoors.

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While exploring the terrain, Yvan[br]discovers that

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there are harvest workers here again.

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There aren't many, but their conditions[br]are no better than back then.

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Three days after he arrived, he met[br]a leader called Meki.

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He was from Sudan. A big strong guy.

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Yvan spent four days in the fields[br]under Meki's brutal control.

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He was paid one euro for every[br]100 kilos of tomatoes picked.

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He earnt a total of 14 kilos on day one.

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From that, he had to pay 10 to Meki for[br]transport, food and water.

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After a 14-hour day under the hot sun[br]and beatings,

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he was left with four euros.

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That's it. And it would be even worse[br]if you got ill.

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I remember a co-worker who fainted[br]suddenly because of the sun.

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It was too hot. He fell to the floor.

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Damn, it was really hard.

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I was next to him when he fell and I asked[br]him what happened, what should I do.

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I went to find water and[br]poured it on him.

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I told the leader he needed to go[br]to hospital.

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But there wasn't one nearby.

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The neares hospital was a long way away.

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And the leader answered: "Leave him there.[br]If you want him to go to hospiral,

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I'll charge you 50 euros[br]for the transport."

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That isn't even exploitation.[br]It's slavery.

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The man barely survived the collapse[br]in the field.

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I worked for five days and on the fifth,[br]we said "Enough. We're exhausted.

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We want a contract. We want our[br]rights to be recognised.

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We're fed up of being[br]treated like slaves."

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Yvan called for a strike, the first[br]among the workers.

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The men from the ghetto follow him.

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The local TV channel, Teleama, reported[br]on the event.

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The death threats made Yvan flee,[br]but his indignation made him return.

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When three months later, the harvest was[br]in danger of rotting,

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the farmers gave up and offered more[br]money and work contracts.

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The govenment of Rome passed a law[br]against the brutal leader system.

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Shortly afterwards, Yvan brough the first[br]case against owners and supervisors.

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Yvan has dedicated his life to the fight[br]for human rights,

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and today he's fighting on several fronts:[br]In industrial zones,

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in the fields, in the courts, and[br]increasingly at the negotiation tables.

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Here in Basilicata, he's meeting with[br]some farmers.

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And he needs speakers from the

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direct employers of the workers.

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The meeting was organised by Yvan's[br]main ally,

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the trade unionist Gianni Fabris.

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The production of fruit and vegetables[br]in Italy is abysmal.

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Our products are subjected to[br]"price dumping".

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The sellers tell the farmers[br]"I will pay the same

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for your peaches as I pay for those[br]from Morocco or Turkey.

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They are cheaper than yours. If you[br]want to sell them, that's the price."

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This is the reality in the[br]Italian countryside.

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The food industry corporations[br]keep the system as it isl.

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They lower the prices to the minimum,[br]leaving no margin for the farmers to pay

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the workers, meaning the system dictates[br]they have to exploit their workers.

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Yvan is trying to find a solution with[br]farmers and trade unions.

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We need to raise awareness[br]and ask consumers

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to take more social responsibility.

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The consumer needs to be aware that for[br]every kilo of tomatoes they buy,

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there is a job.

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A job that exploits workers, or one that

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is ethically sound.

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If they don't rething it, we're dead.

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A few days later, Yvan gets a message that[br]cheers him up.

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An Italian supermarket chain offered[br]him a first deal.

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They committed to buying NOCAP products,

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for a value of up to a million euros[br]for the first consigment.

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A great incentive for all those who[br]want to work with Yvan.

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Yvan demonstrates the work of the NOCAP[br]system in Grazán.

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Here, the farmer picks up the workers[br]himself and doesn't leave transport

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in the hands of the intermediaries.

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The vans consitute the power[br]of the supervisor.

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They take the workers to the fields.

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There is no public transport.

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This means the leaders are in charge of[br]transporting them and abuse the situation.

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The leaders put up to 30 people[br]in one vehicle with a maximum

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of 8 passengers permitted.

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I can assure you that a journey in those[br]overloaded vans is horrible.

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Most of them have no window because[br]the leaders don't want the police to see

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how many people they're carrying.

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There's almost no air, and there[br]are deaths every year.

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In August 2008, two totally packed vans

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crashed in a few days.

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16 African workers died.

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I will do it differently. These lads[br]are workers who've come here

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in a normal vehicle.

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They haven't had to pay for transport.

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As you can see, their clothes are white.[br]They're working clothes.

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They also wear protective[br]masks and gloves.

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We take care of occupational safety.

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Before starting work here, everyone[br]signs a work contract.

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And the salary is in accordance[br]with the law.

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In this field, they're going to pick the[br]last tomatoes of the season.

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One of the workers, Tómas, from Ghana,[br]agrees to talk for a moment.

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We don't usually have a contract, because[br]in Europe and Italy, you need

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permits and contracts to find[br]a decent job.

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That means that often we don't[br]leave the ghettos.

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You believe we're bad people or that we're[br]not human beings.

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Bur we are people, with a[br]different skin colour.

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We have blood in our veins. We're all one.[br]We're all human.

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The man in whose fields Tómas and [br]the others are working thinks the same.

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Giuseppe Viniola's family have been[br]growing organic vegetables for 30 years.

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Viniola signs a contract with the workers.[br]Like an increasing amount of farmers,

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he's trying to leave behind the system[br]which, due to extreme price pressure,

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makes him an exploiter.

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I think the leader system is the worst[br]possible error,

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because it means you employee a workforce[br]which you are ultimately exploiting.

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The tomato harvest is very hard so

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it's essential to recognise the value[br]of their work.

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That's why it's important to sign[br]contracts and protect the workers.

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We pay €5 net per hour plus contributions[br]for the tomato harvest.

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That's double the amount paid by[br]leadership systems.

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We must change the system from the roots[br]up when it comes to the tomato harvest.

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There are great difficulties and it's[br]extremely hard to fight

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against those prices.

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An Italian trade unionist worked out what[br]needs to happen to solve this.

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If the large commercial chains were to pay[br]the farmers,

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just two cents more per kilo of tomatoes,[br]they would have 235 million euros

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of additional turnover.

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This would allow them to provide the[br]workers with dignified

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accomodation and working conditions.

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And the problem with the leaders would[br]be resolved.

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The end of October.[br]Lecce, in the south of Italy.

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Yvan's fight against the leaders and[br]producers began five years ago.

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This is where he had his biggest success.[br]A conviction in the first instance.

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But now the court could also be[br]the setting for his worst defeat.

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The appeal process begins today.

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At the first hearing, nine supervisors[br]were sentenced to 11 years in prison.

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They were declared guilty of slavery, and[br]nine supervisors and

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three Italian farmers were sentenced.

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To begin with, about 50 of us testified[br]against those who exploited us

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to the police.

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We reported them all by name.

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Today, there are only eight remaining[br]who are brave enough to testify.

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I am the main witness.

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Their enemies, sitting on the[br]accused bench,

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defend themselves with every means.

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The farmers have a team of[br]expensive lawyers.

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Yvan isn't happy.

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"They all exploit workers.

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I am one of their victime and I[br]stand by my statement.

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If the conviction were confirmed[br]at the end of the appeal,

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it would be an extraordinary success for[br]Yvan Sagnet,

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although for now, it would only[br]be symbolic.

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This process hasn't changed[br]the working conditions

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of the workers in the fields.

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Of course, the leader system still[br]rules all over Italy.

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And the bad living conditions of the[br]people in the ghettos persists,

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they still have no water or light.

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I was always aware that this process[br]wouldn't be enough to change everything.

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However, Yvan Sagnet believes that[br]the process is a milestone.

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It's worth fighting. We live in a world[br]where you have to fight for your rights,

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because if you don't fight,[br]nothing will change.

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Change will only be achieved by fighting,[br]and we're ready.