Four migrant workers reportedly burned alive in their car in attack in Italy

• 01Four men – three Afghans and one from Pakistan – were allegedly burned alive in a car at a petrol station in Amendolara, Calabria
• 02Two Pakistani nationals have been arrested on charges of aggravated murder, according to public prosecutor Alessandro D'Alessio
• 03Surveillance footage shows suspects pouring liquid into the vehicle's back, setting it ablaze, and blocking its doors
• 04A fourth Afghan man suffered burns to his arms and escaped through the boot
• 05The survivor, a strawberry picker, told TGR Calabria that the victims were threatened with guns and knives and forced to work without pay, receiving only food and board
• 06The survivor described the killers as part of a 'huge Pakistani mafia'
• 07The exploitation operates under a system called caporalato, described as a network of gangmasters who illegally recruit poorly paid labourers
• 08Giorgia Meloni pledged to clamp down on the gangmaster system after Satnam Singh, a 31-year-old farm worker from India, was crushed to death by a machine in June 2024, with his employer on trial for voluntary murder
• 09Italy is issuing 500,000 new work visas for non-EU nationals by 2028, according to Meloni's government
• 10Unions have criticized the visa expansion policy due to bureaucratic issues with processing

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Four migrant farm workers were allegedly burned to death in a car at a petrol station in Calabria, with two Pakistani nationals arrested on murder charges. The killing has renewed focus on the exploitation of foreign agricultural labourers in Italy through an illegal gangmaster system known as caporalato, where workers are coerced into unpaid labor. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government has responded with increased farm inspections and expansion of legal work visas for non-EU workers, though unions have criticized bureaucratic delays in visa processing.