Slaves in Italy? | DW Documentary
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Yvan Sagnet from Cameroon is battling modern slavery in Italy's agricultural sector. Sagnet once worked as a low-wage farmhand. Now he is fighting for the rights of seasonal farmworkers, taking criminal recruiters, or gangmasters, to court.
Yvan Sagnet calls them slaves: the hundreds of thousands of seasonal farmworkers from Africa and eastern Europe on Italy's fields. Without their labor the country would have no tomato, orange or olive harvest. But the workers are exploited and often forced to live under inhumane conditions in ruins or shanty towns called ghettos. In 2011 Sagnet himself briefly picked tomatoes on the fields near the southern Italian town of Nardò. For four days he labored to fill the 350-kilogram crates. He earned 14 euros a day, ten of which he had to hand over to the gangmaster, or Caporale, for transport and water. Caporale is the term for the criminal recruiters who control and exploit the workers. After a 14-hour day working under the blazing sun and even being beaten, Sagnet took home only four euros. He helped to organize the first strike among the farmhands. It was a success, and since then he has been an activist for the rights of the farmworkers and against the gangmasters. Despite death threats, he has set up an organization called NoCap, a label to certify produce farmed under ethically acceptable conditions. And he has taken his fight against exploitation and slavery to the courts. So far, the Italian justice system has responded slowly. It's a fight that will take a long time to win.
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Actually Africa is the best place to stay in. It’s just our leaders who are corrupt, but we are the ones choosing those leaders 🤦🏾♂️
stephen maube the corruption will vanish as soon as Western corporations get the hell out of Africa and give us back our mines. Let us sell our own oil and gold.
Hehe, we choose them once and then they choose to impose 😑
Nobody chooses them they have a mechanism that they put in place they rob people of their votes
No one chooses them. They take by force.
stephen maube
honestly for me it's Southeast Asia is the best place for stay! since i'm Southeast Asia.
our weather is amazing, not humid like sand-deserts like Middleast areas, not hot like hell like Africa, not cold as frozen like Europe!
Mostly is summer all year long, but not crazy hot like Africa. Long beach, many beautiful island, our landscape is amazing!
i hope our next generation should be cherish & proud of who we are, where we come from to take care & pushing working/education more to growing each Southeast Asian country!
Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand is beautiful country!! weather & lands & people!!
Yvan is risking his life every second going against mafia like this. In Italy there's a dizzyingly long list of people who died while trying to fight the mafia and its abonimations. They knew the consequences it would have bring upon them, but still choose to give their life to this cause. By doing all of this Yvan's not fighting only for migrants, but for Italians and Italy too. We should be immensely grateful and proud of him.
It is not THE mafia they are going against, it said a mafia-like structure. I get that they are bullies and violent but it is not the mafia of Scicily or anything to do with them.
While watching this, I found myself thinking the same. He is literally putting his life in danger. I have a lot of respect for him and the courage he shows.
@@paulhamj6175 the mafia isnt only in sicily. Mafia is all over Italy
AMEN
@@Ninja-gt3zi
Mafia is all over the WORLD
“Withoutd the low wage workers it would be left to rot in the fields”, no, without low wage workers, farm owners would be forced to pay people proper wages in order to attract people
and your tomats would go up in price 3x at the same time
Pav If farmers in the north of Italy, in France etc can afford to grow tomoatos and keep a decent price then so can farmers in the south
It is the corporate elites that are controlling the farmers. The farmers are stuck in the middle,
The USA lost their small farmers in the 1980's thanks to Globalist Pres. Jimmy Carter. Next was stealing of US taxpayers money for the Bank Bailout in 2008. Corrupt Politicians and Bankers hid this all through their corrupt news media.
The United Nations and the Corporate elites want global anarchy. For the past 70 years we have spent Trillions of dollars to help people (UN organizations) and the only ones lining their pockets is the politicians & corporations.
gimlet 4ever that is an v important aspect , you are right. Supermarkets take too much profits from the fruit/veg, they force farmers to compete and sell for less.
Ideally farmers need to be connected directly to people without middlemen
If tomatoes must cost 3x more without slaves... Then they must cost 3x more. It's NO excuse to treat people badly because people must eat cheap tomatoes!
We have to build up Africa so that our people don’t need to go and be treated like this
nah. Africa is too big.
Thats why they killed gadafi.
Too late. Africans sold out
@@martinmalecki3302 100%
Who do we blame than our self centred African leaders that have taken all our monies into their private pocket. How do we expect respect from other people when our very own don’t respect us.? I sincerely feel their pains.
You're definitely right and the solution lies within us the youth to stand up to these cruel people the so-called our African leaders and also to encourage our fellow African to put extra effort in their studies especially if in foreign countries
😢😭I agree
@@Paul.Nafuka.2488 The problem is Education, Europe, America, steal resources, and Now China and Russia, is building Roads, apartment and railways, putting many countries deeper in debt, and take resources, in return for the debt, this is not going to help, the one this none of these Countries or Empires, are not doing in Africa, is Educating the people, their spending billions, but their not building Schools, so Africans can understand how to proper use their resources, grow their own food, and understanding economics, this level of hate and envy has also affecting rich African Americans, who would rather spend all their money in Europe making them richer, than even thinking about visiting Africa.
It’s a worldwide issue. We’re global until there’s an issue then it quickly becomes a them problem 😔
@@Paul.Nafuka.2488 Well ,Descendants of Slaves (DOS) in the USA laid out the groundwork ... happy to see Resistance
I'm so tired of people taking advantage of others just because they can.
Me tooo!
Human nature isn't very different from other animals nature, at the end all we care for is food and home and we'll do anything to preserve both, we would have to change on a biological level, get rid of these needs and ways of fulfillment. It's a pure science-fiction, i know.
@@bgggsht do animals exhibit signs of greed though? if anything, they care more about the food they encounter mostly because they're uncertain when they'll eat again.
evil is allowed to prosper by good men doing nothing. What will you do to change things? What are you willing to do? What are you capable of?
welcome to world of humans thats how we got this far lol
Slavery doesn't require chains ⛓️. That hit different 🙏🙏
They literally immigrated there just to do that. It's not slavery. They are literally the reason why they are paid less. If they hadn't come, people working on farms would have to be paid more, but these people outcompete them.
@@merry6671 still doesnt need to have slaves
@@jkjkman8565 Which slaves. Nobody captured them.
To be a slave today is a choice
Its very wrong but it's not slavery
The president literally awarded him but didn't change anything!
The president hasn't politic power (I'm italian)
* Prime minister has got the politic power, but for the incompetence of some politics, in italy prime minister is changing every 1.5 years(circa)
Because Italian politicians are mafias themselves!
Lol
Italy is fascist. Just look at how they are forcing the covid pass on everyone.
I have been in bad situation but this.....even if it's in the name of making money....I prefer to suffer in my country than in a foreign land.
Me too. It was enough they brought my ancestors from my home continent 400 years ago. We survived then, we still do now.
Maybe or maybe not. In many cases it's much worse in Africa. Travel for an hour or two on unpaved life dangering roads. Also theres no running water in these farms or electricity. And the warlords give them even less than in Italy and if the workers die of heat stroke or get killed in a mines it's simply understood as the risk for making wages. Plus they exploit any workers including paying pennies to children. And poverty drives these workers to work in these conditions because even the little that they make is better than nothing. Whats worse is that in some places in Africa. These workers are exposed to toxic by products either when they're working in the mines extracting minerals or recycling certain metals from electronic products. Not saying what the Caporali is doing is ethical. Just saying it is equally as bad in Africa and in many cases even worse. And this is just understood as unwritten law. Do you think that in Africa you can gather witnesses and take it to the higher court, work with local farmers and vendors to improve the safety and working conditions and get better pay lol are you kidding me? That person and their whole family will get murdered within 24 hours! So the exploitation of human slavery is already occuring in Africa. It's just being adopted in places like Italy from the brains of fellow Africans. If fellow Africans didn't exploit their own people this wouldn't happen. It's really greed that makes them cruel to their fellow man. Greed is what makes fellow Africans exploit their own people for profit and riches. Greed is what makes the Italian farmers agree with the exploitation. But that greed starts at home first in Africa because that's the origin of the exploitation since the beginning of time.
@@marrokraff998 You are repeating this everywhere as if one legitimizes the other! Please, stop being apologetic!
If it would come down to just comparison between two evil situations or who is less/more devil, there is no reason whatsoever for any one to leave her/his home country, to begin with!
@@zackdiarra4805 not being apologetic at all! These African brothers wouldn't be here if it wasn't for other African brothers who exploited them for money in the first place. Something that happens normally and regularly all over the African continent. Especially among the do not haves. What do you mean there's no reason for anyone to leave his or her country? Are you stating that from the comfort of your own home because you don't suffer from poverty? Have you not been paying any attention here? If there's no reason for Africans to leave their country why are there thousands of Africans stuck in the Canary Islands trying to make their way into Europe. Why are there hundreds of thousands of Africans trying to make it into Europe every single year?! Non sensical
@@marrokraff998 I am just rewording what the original comment says: "I prefer to suffer in my country than in a foreign land..."
Also, not only Africans who are trying their hard to make it in Europe or America, Arabs, Asians and other Europeans and or latin americans are all doing it every single day!
Maybe, we should stop with this selective blame towards africans ... Immigration has been and always be (till Yowm eddin) an inherent human being behaviour!
Bravo to this cameroonian brother for trying to expose this modern day slavery. May God bless him.
Absolutely! Amen!!
He has a choice he can go back home
The tomatoes planted by these Africans, are destined to be exported TO Africa, instead of staying in Africa and plant tomatoes to export within the rest of Africa. The African governments, allows these imports. These tomatoes are cheaper, because they are subsidized by the European Union, so the locals say it makes no sense to farm them, thousands of kilos, are rotting in African fields. this Activist should go home, form a group, and confront his own government, and continent, and stop telling Italy how to run their country
He can go to the police for being struck. He can leave. It’s unacceptable abuse and exploitation but not slavery.
Anybody forcing him to do this .leave the place and go home. Is anybody stopping them to leave? Go back to your land.
What a horror! When will human beings stop this inhumane treatment of others? It seems some of us do not have a conscience.
@JustA noob you know nothing
@Solaris I agree.
Unfortunately humans have always and will always be greedy. Which means if someone is profiting from someone else misery then it won't be stopped any time soon. 😑
Dont forget that they chose to come illegally to Italy, with no documents ... I am sure they weren't living much better in their own countries where at least they had a house... Therefore it is stupid to complain about something you chose to do..
Or you have heartless asshats who can't even sympathize with someone else misery but they will gladly put on that uniform to destroy another's home
I always find it interesting we as humans say we are completely opposed to slavery, yet it's clearly EXACTLY what we want because we want the best, cheap. If you have an iphone, Nike trainers etc you just can't say you are against slavery.
This applies here too. We want the best fruit and food, cheap. As long as we don't have to see the human suffering beyond that delicious veneer, we're perfectly content.
It applies most to our food. You don't need Nikes, but everyone needs food and the conditions that create the most rockbottom produce prices are always slavery. (Maybe there's a country that doesn't apply to, but NOT in the West!)
The grass is never greener no matter where you go. Stay in your own homes and fight where you are. Being a foreigner is never easy. This is sad to watch. Human trafficking and exploitation is so so bad all around the world. It's so good to see someone truly fighting for justice.
It is in the US & Canada
Looking at Asia now
The disgusting thing is that my country allows it.Those things happen under the eyes of everyone and the government doesn't do anything
Come back home brother Africa is beautiful full of opportunities and love
Non è semplice abbiamo in Africa tutti i caporali Africani arabi europei e adesso anche cinesi caro Omar senza raccomandazioni peggio. Sono africana e donna so quello che dico
😢
Yassin...🙏💚🙏 no come back Africa, but stay in Italy with better works, without injustice and with equal rights...I hope and pray for our African brother's future here in Italy ❤❤❤❤❤❤ Insh'Allah....
@Rana Ali Akhtar Alam Khan yes for the same reasons...😰😰😰 therefore Insh'Allah for these unlucky our African brothers...🙏💚🙏
@@commoveo1 yes...😪😪😪
It's disgusting how humans treat each other 🤬
We are gods worst creation....
You started it I'm just working my employees to death I think it's wrong that you call people like me out
@@MegaYamahar and your weak for thinking we're gods worst creation no we are intelligent beings capable of complex ablities unmatched by any other species. We will teraform this planet into a centerpiece of universal domination, Elon has already marked the moon or mars as the next colonization point humanities reign of galactic domination has just begun, we are Earth's greatest species, things will die from their inability to understand it's inferiority to us humans, but it's a natural part of evolution it's emotionally sad I suppose, but it's just natural. We see this in the universe all the time a larger star eating the smaller star who knows a planetary wide genocide could, be occuring because of this destruction To advance though the larger star must destroy the smaller star and absorb it
Go back where you come from.
@@renjia3504 if we where intelligent we wouldn't destroy this planet but hey nobody cares because humanity is stupid and they don't care about earth
It wouldn't surprise me if the government had a finger in this pie also, how else could the criminals get off the hook so easily
Exactly. Something is very fishy.
I bet the governments own the dinghy shops.
@@evangelesong6319 it's not the government. It's the mafia. They are already known many Yeats for their dirty business, They are to many and they are everywhere.
It's the dark side of Italy
@@evangelesong6319 it's the government problem, but it's even your problem.
Like, imagine being in front of 2 products, one costs 0.50€, the other 2.50€. Which one u choose? Which one on your daily bases would u buy, just to have 2€ to spend for your relatives. Its a system problem. Government included, mafias, me, you and everyone else on this planet
They do
Africa is such a rich and beautiful land. With the right leadership none of this would undermine a single African person. All Africans deserve a peaceful, prosperous and safe life. Bless Them 🙏💗💕
God bless Africa ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Seriously.
Colonialism has ruined it. Evangelism will destroy what's left
@@organicmagic8822 Islam is destroying a lot of Africa as well.
Sadly Africa hasn't learned from its past and now China will continue the destruction
Cameroon president lives just across the border in Switzerland. Pay him a visit.
QOOQ8808
What?😳
Documentary like DW always blame European countries but don't blame Africa's own corrupt government for allowing their own people to starve while these African politicians make millions per year and live in multi-million dollar penthouse.
Terrie Smith
Very true! Am kenyan ... our politicians earn a lot of money while a common citizen is suffering! I thank God I got education and job opportunity in Germany
Blame your own country leaders
@@terriesmith8219 They're both rich people exploiting the poor. This is the true face of capitalism.
I am glad that I now grow my own tomatoes. I will be planting more in the future so I can harvest enough for my extended family. This is the least I can do. Wish I knew what else I could do other than pray.
Multilayers of issues here. The failure of African countries at providing basic services and opportunities for citizens to become active participants in the economy. The EU and their disastrous migrant policy have....
Big corporations exploiting farmers which leads to low profit margins which fuels the exploitation of workers in general. As consumers, we need start asking where our food comes from and the associated human cost. We are all active participants...
Why disastrous migrant policy? The guy in this video came here ilegally and as a result, he's not able to find jobs and housing.
what a load of bollocks by the presenter when she said, "Without the low wage workers it would be left to rot in the fields".....you are wrong madam. If these low-wage laborers were not there then the farmers would pay higher wages. These farmers are taking advantage of destitute people which is what is wrong.
What r u talking about? 1 tomorrow its better than nothing today. And unfortunately, its not advantage. Its a system problem
Idk, when the pandemic hit the restaurants, farmers around the globe destroyed their own crops because it wasn't profitable. I would imagine they would rather grow enough to profit while people starve and can't afford much food.
Absolutely
And also would have to sell their produce at higher retail prices to cover the higher waged being paid.
That’s the whole Europe not just Italy...
No its not
@Samer Nattifi ur probably a immigrant right? They are treated better than European in Europe
being slave in europe is even better living in some other place in the world. true story.
It is worsed in London.
Happens in Finland too even tho we have otherwise okay payrates And housing. But bad exploitation of People Who dont speak the language so well still happens.
I'm an immigrant myself. all I know is this, if you're not welcome don't force your stay. nobody is going to change anything for "you" to make it better. so think twice before you leave your country, you can find much more worse. that's why legal immigration is the way, gives you some protection. the illegal one is not working anymore.
Come back to Africa some countries have improved alot
Really? How? By being a slave to a dictator?
Our problem in Africa begins from untrust between the countries. You cannot even travel from one country to another without visas and roadblocks. Yet we grant Visa free status to too many non African countries
I think Rwanda is their best bet there is still racism in south Africa towards black even though blacks are the majority
Facts
By the help of Western countries😃
The worst part is we the blacks we don't have agreement with each other. I still remembered that me and my friends decided not to work again in the fields simply because the money they are paying us is too small and they should sign us a contract but few of them disagree, that's life for you
How much do you get paid and do you think is only with the Mafia that this happens or is there even more like this happening? Thank you.
They don't have to live like that I'm sure there's others that would love the opportunity I mean its not a rockstar lifestyle but you got work food and warm place to stay
Yes, because they know they have something to loose. The fear of returning back to poverty.
If only 5 Million african Slave workers including the Sex Slaves would raise their „I phones“ to Upload in „you Tube“ a Five Minute Film about their living conditions in Europe the entire trafficking industry could collapse immedeatly
@@niamakoroko1176 Food and a warm place to stay??? Were you watching the same video? Did you not see the conditions they were "living" under? I wonder if you are suffering similarly to not know better.
This is sad, activists like him should get support. This slavery needs to end. People are being overworked like animals. It's crazy..
To be fair many Africans are treated the same way in their own countries. Thats why the Caporali are from Africa like the Sudanese that mistreated Ivan. What's worse is they have to travel for an hour or two on unpaved life dangering roads. So Africa isn't any better in many cases, it's worse! There's no running water in these farms or electricity. And the warlords give them even less than in Italy and if the workers die of heat stroke or get killed in a mines it's simply understood as the risk for making wages. Plus they exploit any workers including paying pennies to children. And poverty drives them to work in these conditions because even the little that they make is better than nothing. Whats worse is that in some places in Africa. These workers are exposed to toxic by products either when they're working in the mines extracting minerals or recycling certain metals from electronic products. Not saying what the Caporali is doing is ethical. Just saying it is equally as bad in Africa and in many cases even worse. And this is just understood as unwritten law. Do you think that in Africa you can gather witnesses and take it to the higher court, work with local farmers and vendors to improve the safety and working conditions and get better pay lol are you kidding me? That person and their whole family will get murdered within 24 hours! So the exploitation of human slavery is already occuring in Africa. It's just being adopted in places like Italy from the brains of fellow Africans. If fellow Africans didn't exploit their own people this wouldn't happen. It's really greed that makes them cruel to their fellow man. Greed is what makes fellow Africans exploit their own people for profit and riches. Greed is what makes the Italian farmers agree with the exploitation. But that greed starts at home first in Africa because that's the origin of the exploitation since the beginning of time.
@Dean Sim ignorant and small minded individuals as yourself have never lived and never seen anything beyond your small town other than faces that look like yours. Please, you are tired of hearing about black people but you are watching this documentary. It is clear you sought knowledge and it was clouded by your inability to think critically. Even with expensive electronics with access to a lot of information, you still make stupid, uneducated remarks. What a shame. You are an abysmal representative of your area.
@ ronnie..The world over,my dear...
@@marrokraff998 Bravo!!!👏👏👏
DW Mind your own bisiness!!!
As a high school kid from an African immigrant family I worked in the fields along Mexicans in California picking tomatoes for $2 per bucket. Years later after befriending an Italian exchange student in college, I flew to Frankfurt, Germany and later to took a train to Parma, Italy to visit my Italian friend. I was surprised to see that the family had a sprawling farm, but even more outwardly surprised to see African farmhands working the fields. I was introduced to a few of the farmhands and I'll never forget the look in their eyes. The dichotomy of our social differences was abstruse .... because we were both African.
You are such a strong man.Don't change.Fight!This Earth need People like you!The change start with that one person in hope that others will follow for better humanty.I salute you!
He and his companions are better off to take what they have learned about the farming business, go back home to Cameroon and then start farms and compete with their former employers. They could then vote good leaders into leadership in their own country -
I believe one of the farmers in the video was saying that they could get certain fruits and vegetables from other African countries for less to be imported to Italy. They see that as strong competition and thus try to lower the cost by not paying the farm hands. From what you say, yes maybe they could organize more; and probably better farms to sell within their own country and charge more to European stores. However, I wonder if they could face the same conditions of being without contracts, no sanitation, poor sleeping conditions etc in their own countries..?
Yeah, he should use this experience as a business feasibility study trip.
Their are no great leaders
Bill Stonesmith Have you watched DW’s documentary ‘Tomatoes and greed’? It explains very well how hard it is for farmers in Ghana to compete with subsidised imports from China and India. Many countries have the same situation. Globalisation is no friend to the small farmer. It isn’t so simple.
So true, but I learnt that some are stuck for money to return... and then return to what???
I think schemes to pay for rerun and some basic start over money can be a start for the first 100k who Volunterrs to leave .... then they should crack down on those who don’t , doe their own safety and citizens to start working farms for good pay
This man is a selfless great man .He will succeed in life beyond borders
I hope so too. More power to him and people like him.
Footnote: If Yvan Sagnet is getting death threats is it smart to show his wife and their child's face? I hope more changes have taken place since the documentary aired. He is indeed a brave man!
If you ever wonder what a hero looks like - just look at Yvan!
Yes, an Not this German Carola Rakete who is a disgusting traffickers and hate bringing beast.
this call the withe people put the overtime everyday. right now . the life is no easy anywhere. the cost living is hard
Yvan is a hero indeed
amen
I am from East Africa. I am disappointed that millions of Africans, mainly from West Africa, migrate to Europe, expecting VIP treatments. Why go to the oppressor while you have the ability to build your home? I think West Africans should stop viewing Europe as a haven and borrow the Rwanda model.
But Africa is just Africans killing Africans
@@robertmitchell8630 I think you will find that in your not too distant history, Europe was also just Europeans killing other Europeans with far greater efficiency
Is cameroon and sudan in west africa.
@@robertmitchell8630You have a distorted view of Africa. Some places in Africa don't fit in your description.
@@oforiwaaakosa2489 You missed the point.
Am African and I think y'all should stay in your country unless your country is at war.
Very true....
How about poor Europeans that went to USA long time ago since they didn’t have Food to eat ..the went with Big boats and were welcommed ...
@@emmaDurakovich
There was no welfare, no free housing and no free healthcare when these poor Europeans legally migrate into the U.S.
My guess is that enough migrants find success to encourage others to follow.
@@CountBifford or try to help those that want to come to work
Yvan is driven by righteousness. I felt terrible hearing him recount the death if his friend. A few years ago, my Guinea Uncle passed away in transport to the hospital. His city was semi-remote and there was no public health system for anyone there. It still saddens me immensely to know that he was alive when he left for help and passed in transport.
It's slavery, if you can't quit. Exploitation is taking advantage of another's desperate economic plight.
@Hei Shehui It is a trigger word to lead people where they want them to go by their emotions, so they don't use their brains to try to figure out what the best solution is.
This breaks my heart knowing its happening everywhere
What a great brave man, my admiration and respect! The world needs more people like him to become a better place, chapeau et courage!!
@easter worshipper First of all, you need to learn English before you tell anyone to stay in their own countries, second of all humans originated from Africa meaning that we have all immigrated to where we live.
Yea. He seems like a very methodical and persistent man which is what is needed.
Italy is a Christian Country how can this be disgraceful
I saw the documentary on west African countries like Ghana no longer growing tomatoes and closing long running processing plants - while the workers go to Italy . I’ve been wondering how that transition happened. Also how palm trees became the primary source of produce in Malaysia. This is crazy .
I love africa and i shall always stay here.
I love Europe and do not want it to become like the USA. There is high unemployment in Italy Africans should keep out South Africa is a better option for them
@@declancurry4479
There’s so many white people in Namibia and South Africa who own almost all the land but you’re so worried about black people migrating. We don’t steal land like your folks do. America was never even white. They stole it and now complain that country is majority brown. Tell your folks to get out of the North/South America , Australia, Namibia and South Africa before asking Africans to keep out of Europe.
Than you are a true warrior!
@@MB-nb7yq There are few White people in Sub Saharan Africa just 0.55% of a population of over 1.1 BILLION . Take away the 4.5 Million in South Africa (going down every year) and they are more or less non existent.
I love Africa too but my s..n c...r is telling me you are not welcome there
Your not a slave. You don’t actually have to work, and you can go back where you came from. It’s obviously better than where there from or they would go back. Education is there savior. You pay 50 cents to charge your phone and there’s 40 in one room. Not one smart enough to build hand crank charger?
Illegally entering a country and expecting everyone to treat you with all the advantages of being a legal citizen is not living in reality.
True, most legal Africans I've met who live in Italy say they are comfortable working and living among Italians. You are right, if you enter any country illegaly do not expect to be treated equal even here in Kenya we do not treat Somalians and Congolese equal.
Sadly, he thought he could 'play' Italy but the human trafficking gangs on both continents played him. For some reason, many people think Europe is a soft touch, they don't know how deadly the underbelly gangs are. This man is evidence of that.
They cannot get citizenship
Hi was wondering if you feel the same about Ukrainians fleeing the war?
@@BasheeraAgyemanHell no.
Honestly we probably have seasonal working like this in Germany too. Its nauseating to think that most of the products you buy are actually being produced under slave like conditiones.
@@anonymerdude4501 na man. We had Media coverage about that because of covid. It was a very dangerous place because of bad hygiene.
It's the same in whole Europe. I have seen something very similar like this in Finland and also Sweden
in Finland??? lol
No not in sweden
@@roseasmr3490 the crack down on human exploitation and trafficking is not an easy feat. It's not the same as in the video but it exist. I know since I see some of it through work. Like right now for example, we are screening everyone from Ukraine extra clearly
So? The evil should continue?🤷🏽♀️
I though finland is paradise 🤷♀️
It's sad he had to go through troubles. But since he did he now works to make things better and now he has an up close understanding of the system. May God continue to bless him and his family.
The african misleaders should never be allowed to enjoy their stolen wealth.
It's the prople not just leaders
What a lovely man. These same things happen all over to agricultural workers, USA too. I am so glad you are helping Yvan.
Hi
@@qezzmilli9512 hi
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He said he was being treated like a slave and the Masters were from their own country what am I missing here
It's not the masters. I think he's referring to the overseers who are from african countries ( he said the one who ill-treated him was from Sudan, however Yvan is from Camaroon) that the farmers/owners put in charge of them.
That is how it works ...divide and conquer
@Nezumi Speed I'll tell you the same thing I tell people from my country, which has the same system with different races. I'm not saying anything about people who do that type of work, because I know I'm not going to do it. I believe most Western Europeans won't neither.
@Nezumi Speed Luxury for no work. When are the neo colonists, the Europeans (that includes Italy) Leaving Africa? Never, if they have their way. Their economy is based on African resources. You all are real special people
Nezumi Speed They want ‘luxury’ for no work??? WTF?! They want, and have every human right to expect, human decency for the work done. They have every right to at the very basic, a safe place to live, with running water and electricity. They have a right to not be hit. They have a right to some freakin free water and some some shade to rest on and get out of the sun periodically during the day. I pretty positive YOU are given break periods at work and you get to charge input phone for free while working and have ALL KINDS of nice benefits. I bet if you collapsed at work, they’d even make sure someone got you to the hospital and wouldn’t charge you for it.
These workers are human beings. Treat them with respect! If you think basic, clean living conditions and respectful treatment is a luxury, you must think the rest of us are all royalty by our own modest living standards!
This also happened to Bulgarians,romaniens and other poor East European it is horrible
The haves against the have nots...its not always about race i know now
Such a brave man, I applaud his courage. Turning a blind eye is how many injustices flourish.
I Appreciate this young man's bravery!
Thank God Almighty for sending a courageous, brave and bold man to stand against bullies, I'm so happy the country wasn't against him.
No one had ever tried stoping it.
Change comes slowly, but it will eventually come 👍👍👍👍👍
The Lord bless you my brother, and bless and protects your family
I lived in the US Virgin Islands for 10 years under almost the same conditions without the 40 people to a room people don't get paid enough anywhere anymore
Wow trump needs to fix that
Noo
Funny how when Albanians,and other balkan immigrants were treated like that and even worse, no western european media talked about it, but now for Africans they try to show they care...
Finally someone talks sense. Its not only blacks that are in slavery. Its POOR people across the racial divide.
@@jaysomeone I wouldn't call it a slavery, but yes .
Everybody else seems to forget how the Irish were poorly mistreated when they came to America
Instead of fleeing from his country and go to another country why did not he stay home and fight for his rights
@@tonymedeiros5353 How dumb of a human being can you be? He probably fled because his homeland is much poorer and more dangerous for him to live in. How are you gonna tell him to fight for his rights in a country troubled with poverty and violence?
Do a documentary of how they live in Cameroon . Would like to see what they are fleeing that makes them leave and live like this . Sad
Sammy Extreme poverty. Subsidised imports that local farmers cannot compete with. DW have already made the ‘Tomatoes and Greed’ documentary which sets it all out.
They are free to leave anytime . Why stay if so bad .
Sammy Sometimes they do not have enough money to leave. They use all their savings to make the journey and earn much less than they had hoped to.
@@Sldmax you’re ignorant and racist. F*uck off
@@aristolehilary3741 why is that racist? , but i bet everything is racist to you .
You knew that this man received a death threat and yet you went to his home and exposed it to the world where & how he lives. Such a journalism.
Yeah a very big mistake
Sometimes I wonder if they use d money gotten from youtube views to help dz people
@@florencewhits7251 never.
womp womp
In 2017 while on holiday in sicily-we hired a car for a few days. Beautiful place, food etc This was during the litter collection strike ( mafia related the locals said) so the place despite having breathtaking scenery was filthy af. The heat was unbearable so i cant imagine picking tomatoes in that sun. One thing we noticed were these young african girls in remote areas sitting by the roadsides - very odd ithought. When i came back i googled and found my horrific answer. Thats a whole lot of exploitation not even covered here. Some folks here are calling it bullying ; a relabelling tactic to water things down imo . I now consume ethically..including holiday destinations . Please stand up to local injustices and buy ethical locally grown food or grow your own. We are all human so lets take care of each other.
These same africans will still tell their brothers at home that they working and earning euros thus increasing the pull factor of crossing the seas
People should be able to live where they want. They only move to earn a living.
@@ahhhhhlive illegally or legally?
@@ahhhhhlive That is an extremely privilaged mindset that not a lot of people get to have. Remember that.
I'm an African myself but when he said this is Italy in 21st century. What about Cameroon which don't speak nor write its own native language but uses French. Fight to change still existing French colonial exploitation in Cameroon.
that's not slavery. That's exploitation.
You must not know that criminal organisations control these farms they can’t just leave
You don't physically abuse people in case of exploitation
Alright, I finished this whole documentary. Thanks again, DW, for bringing to light an issue I- a factory worker and student in Small Town USA- never once considered. For those of you who are surfing the comments section and don't want to watch the full video, here's the heart of the issue: workers' rights. The supermarket industry forces prices down to international levels, and Italians can't compete. Because of that, the Italian farmers hire migrants and pay them very little. Then they cut into the migrants' wages through extortion for things such as transportation (30 people in a small van with no open windows), bedding (10 euros for a rotten mattress), and basic necessities (1.5 euros for a shower)- which results in migrants making next to nothing. And if a migrant worker happens to faint from heat exhaustion, lack of water, or getting beaten by gangsters on the job, then too bad for him. According to the Italian farmers' organization Yvan works with, all of this is a problem which could easily be solved by supermarket chains paying Italian farms 2¢ more for the produce they cultivate.
So again, this is not slavery on paper, but because of the surrounding circumstances in which migrants are subjected to abuse and extortion, it is in practice.
and it's still 100x better then the place they came from, it's a difficult job with low pay, but to say it's slavery it's an immoral lie...they can leave any moment they want. Not to mention that migrants complaining about low wages is interesting, given their larger numbers cause wages to go down in a free market economy, if they weren't there, these jobs would be paid more or not exist.
Thank you for this summary. I see this exactly like you and I think this comment section would be way better of to talk and discuss about general working conditions for *all* people working in our countries and criticize companies and missing laws, that allow something like this even happening.
Instead you see how people just blame migrants for working their asses of in the heat of the italian sun so some people can earn a lot of money by seeling their tomatoes for a prize way bellow what the work was actually worth and the goverment just watching over it, because they are no italian citizens...
@@aron8659 This is true, but honestly a lot of these immigrants work jobs I would never consider. It would be best if the Economy were better in their home countries.
It's pretty easy to piss on migrants, or to allow exploitation on this level because it means that you pay less at the grocers for your food. In essence, you're enjoying the fruits of exploitation because citizens of most countries would not do this sort of job under the same conditions as a migrant worker. Perhaps paying $15 per tomato would be more to your liking, which would represent the cost of domestic labor and the profit margin necessary to keep these farms afloat. It would also do away with migrant workers, and that seems to bode well with the posters here. In the alternate, you could just shut down all your farms and import from another country. Let Cameroon build farms and sell tomatoes to Italy.
UA-cam needs more people like you.
If these people, who are truly being exploited under those horrible working conditions, can walk away from this job the next day and quit, then there are NOT in a condition of slavery.
I'm glad someone said it, this isn't Slavery. Its horrible working conditions but if they are getting compensated and can come and go as they please its not slavery.
Meanwhile there are festivals with Tomatoes Fights throughout Spain and Italy wasting millions of tons of Tomatoes to keep prices up
Here in South Africa i have always purchased canned pomodoros (tomatoes) from Italy, little did i know i was helping support a filthy modern day enslavement of my fellow Africans. No more. I'm boycotting all Italian tomato produce
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Shut up !!! Its our culture
Show this on Dutch TV please !
The grass isn't greener at the neighbour's garden.
MAXIM Nederland is een mooi land, mensen gaan goed met elkaar. Iedereen lief en aardig. iedereen is gelijk hier en mensen krijg gelijk kans
I agree with you!
Juist
Leugen!
You are right , make their way to , Europe to find a better life , the grass is not greenin neighbor garden ,
I am just learning of this. Will share wih my people to increase awareness. May GOD send to you all some relief.
Why did you delete the Slavery Routes documentary from you page?
Cameroon is a good and blessing country. Some peoples need to see by themselves reality of being abroad.
Please stay were you are born and stop dreaming about Europe mirages. But who can understand ? Nobody !
Cameroon run by dictator the past 40 years f****** idiot
Everyone has a dream and many people in third world countries don't want to stay and live in poor conditions with poor facilities. People have every right to move wherever they want in this planet. Who are you to say otherwise.
@@amydefurniville4585 If you have a university diploma, you are a doctor, you may try the EU. Uneducated people are not wanted.
If Cameroon is such a good country why are they all leaving they should stay at home. How do they live there
Whhhhhat , clearly its not that great if these people took the risk to leave Cameroon. And I don't see why we have to stay where we were born
This exposure is why im a supporter of this channel
Return to our land. You can improve your business as farmer. Your knoledge is a task that we need in Africa.
Don't redemption for slavery.
Africa is rich and have large land for all of us. Return to your mother land.
Africa is amazing, but the leaders are corrupt. African peoples must rise against their corrupted leaders to make their lives better on their own land. Another thing is that if people coming to work to Italy don't like the conditions they live in or how they are treated by the business owners, they should leave and return home. No cheap labor - no abuses. Business is business.
The lack of humanity is outrageous this money and materialism is out of control
Absolutely unbelievable. I thought humanity left this kind of thing behind
this is the reality of most undocumented migrants under capitalism in Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, etc.
It has been going on for a long time with close to no end in sight due to the state's unwillingness to solve the issues at hand. The system we have in place thrives off workers' exploitation, since the goal is the accumulation of capital, and not setting standards of living for all of us.
If abusing precarious individuals results in higher profits, in a system where that is the only goal, while assuring proper salaries and living standards results in a significant loss in profits, these horrible behaviors will sadly remain unchanged.
God bless this brother that is highlighting the plight of the forgotten people
So sad fleeing home country for a better life and ending up in a place like that.
That's not slavery at all and besides, if this fella feels like he is slave, why doesn't he leave this job? Slavery, like in the case he is trying to portrait, is force servitude and I do not believe he is being force to work there.
In addition, this business appears to be a small family's operation of growing tomatoes. Otherwise, they would be mechanized in some fashion to make the job easier, but apparently they do not have the monetary resource to invest in machines.
Rayhid1956 I agree it’s like when cops complain about their job ... I’m like just quit... if you don’t have the temperament or stamina move on to a job better suited for you... maybe cops should become field workers and visa versa.
Exactly.
Rayhid1956 , this man needs to study American black slavery b4 putting his foot into his mouth with lies
Rayhid1956 so they invest in slaves.
U left home to go and pick tomatoes in Italy????? It's unbelievable!!!
Africa has plenty land to farm. Speaking from a person of African ancestry. If you don’t like the treatment then find other ways to better your situation. Last time I checked Slavery was force not a choice.
LongArmFossils I see that with a lot of groups that immigrant. They come from places with less. I understand the want for a better life. But the countries that their entering already have natives that aren’t rich and struggle. So that’s a selfish mind state to put yourselves as victims when it’s not only your group that needs assistance. What about the people who are already there and all around. Life is beautiful but nothing comes free. I just see things from a wider view.
It's sad and heartbreaking to see people get treated like this. Came across some children in Shanghai who were beggars on the street. I found out later that they'd been intentionally crippled at birth by their parents; for that very purpose. Between the sun and the moon, we will all get what's coming to us. Fact.
Were these children blinded or what ?
@@bgggsht Allsorts. I don't remember seeing any that were blind on the street, only in massage parlours. The more I go on about this, the more I feel like I may be putting a target on my back? If you search for 'crippled Chinese beggars' on google you'll find countless stories on the matter. They're saying that it is Chinese criminal gangs that are mostly responsible for the mutilation, either way, it shouldn't be happening at all. On the flipside of this, there are also perfectly healthy people who pretend to be crippled, because of how it helps to elicit emotion. There is so much pain and cruelty in this world. I don't believe there's any organisation out there that is helping out people in this situation. The police don't get paid enough to care. This is what 'money' has done to this planet.
@@AboutHouseMusic this is insane. It doesn't even seem humane.
Never knew Italy was like this... But not surprised God Bless You All
I am shocked as well, I am Italian but have sadly only been able to visit Italy, but what's described here is not the country my grandfather told me about sad to see, I wish you'd left info on how to contact Yvan to donate to his cause
gov is literally sleeping on workers' conditions in south Italy... While Europeans money goes north thanks to Lega ( and dumbest people from the south even voted for it!) In south Italy nothing changed from 800's latifundium if you're working in the fields...Mafia people are running the business while workes conditions are basically slavery, and security is basically utopic ... If you are an irregular immigrant they can catch you easily because nobody would know what happened to you, but it's something happening to Italians as well or to any other person unlucky enough to end up working there
This is BS. And everyone buys into this narrative from a questionable video. So, this is the official document you refer to on immigration in Italy and elsewhere? Question everything. And look from both sides. This is an opportunity for you.
If it is so ruff go back home. Hard work has been part of every country, it called feeding yourself.
Give it a rest. You try living like that - no water means they can't even clean anything. People everywhere want the cheapest prices they can get and they don't care who suffers to give it to them.
hecke1959 one day you will be in their shoes
lol the first man is from cameroun . his country was invaded by germany who occupied it for over 30 years . through raids , forced labor and theft , the germans got immensely rich from cameroun , some of the resources provided by the camerounians were critical to german industrialization. I therefor find you comment about staying in ones country and doing your own work really ironic . racist people seem to think that migration is a white privilege .
You Got That Right
Italy is full. 60% youth unemployment, crumbling infrastructure... go back to Africa it is better.
Yet tomatoes are still expensive in Italy, because between farmers and consumers, there is the mafia of the wholesalers!
Expensive? Where do you live in Italy and how much do you pay for a kg of tomatoes?
No one is ever forced to enslave and abuse others. No matter what the industry is saying, you always have a choice.
How does EU allow these products under through labour exploitation?
God bless this man! He could have got out and moved on with his life, however he listened to his heart. I pray for his safety and his family.
It’s unfortunate the court reversed the decision, but I am hopeful things will continue to improve!
His a hero in my book🙏🏽
Which decision is this
He is
We are praying for them, so that God changes their lives
...me too, sister...🙏💚🙏
Let's continue to pray for God hears their cries and will answer swiftly
Y'all are idiots fr
@@why4654 Religion is one of the reasons Africa is behind. The people are waiting for the hereafter instead of creating better systems in their countries now.
You well know that praying doesn't help them just shoote your not doing a thing about it.
The funny thing is that people back in Africa think these guys are balling. Driving fancy cars on the coast and sipping on Cognac. The worst part is that they lie that they do so more of them come.
Rather hustle and struggle in your own country/continent than go get exploited and mistreated in a foreign land.
These people are still exploited in their own countries. Why don’t you make those countries better so people don’t have to leave
The sad reality is that those these evil agents are mostly our own fellow Africans too
Well you moved illegally to their country and they smelled desperation from you. That's how they knew you can be exploited. Never be desperate especially when looking for job.
Facts,,you right
Colonialism has ruined Africa. Evangelism will destroy it
oh you don't say! These fools desperate for work....they should just stop being desperate...why did they not think of that!?
Stay in your countries and stop jumping borders and entering countries illegally. Go back to your country man im tired of people invading countries then cry foul! You journalist, when they revolt, they kill you first.
@@jaysomeone invading countries? I think Europeans are champions at that.
Get out of here with victim blaming. Slavery isn't normal
Dear wife don't stop pray for him God will see him through
Yvan is doing good work, but in my opinion there are also some tough questions that need to be asked:
- Why do people go to Italy to live and work under these conditions when they could build up an agricultural industry in their own countries?
- Why are other Africans helping to exploit these workers?
- Why don't they keep their living quarters more clean? That would make things at least a little bit more bearable.
- Why are Italian customers not willing to pay a little bit more for domestic tomatoes than for tomatoes imported from outside of Europe?
- Why does the Italian government turn a blind eye to this?
For one thing... they have no time for domestic chores: they work from sunup to sundown with no days off and are so exhausted they can barely feed their faces before they fall asleep.
Kudos to Yvan for being selfless and stepping up for the voiceless. I commend his courage. African leaders have failed their own forcing these guys to flee their homes. "Fleeing from frying pan to fire" as the saying goes.
I feel the fire within me to complain about the African leaders and may be also work with other's to see that we change the situations. But it is too bad to the extent that the moment you opose what is going on you are searching for your own death. It is quite sad . Being a Ugandan i have seen my fellow youth standing up for better idea s and their lives have been taken away. It is quite sad. People standing against all that are killed in broad Daylight. If only we were brave enough to stop all this nuisance. We would be better.
You are amazing Brother. May the blood of Jesus cover you. May you not die due to man's will. May the good Lord grant you long life for you and your family until you see generations and generations of your grandchildren
Blood of human that’s weird man
As an Italian, not even supporting the right, all I can say is that this is a product of globalisation, neoliberalism, immigration policy and geopolitical. What once upon a time was called "slavery" is now called "we've got to save the life of these persons and take them here from Africa to assure them a better life". On another hand farmers have to compete with lower and lower costs to sell their products or they can't enter in the Large Scale Retail Distribution managed by huge multinational companies. Without considering that western countries (USA first) go destabilising countries for their business and produce the immigration with the consequences we all see.
Spain and Italy treat the immigrants the same way in the fields. In Spain there are even ghettos of farm workers
Isn't it amazing how God orchestrates? He thought he was in Italy to earn a degree but his purpose there was far greater!
Yvan is a good fighter but I think he'd be better off fighting the Cameroonian government over their plundering of public funds which is the main reason people are setting off on such miserable journeys through the death sea called the Mediterranean to end up being enslaved in Italy or anywhere else in the world. Fighting for the wellbeing of our people is always better at home
Kudos to you. I think we are raging wars against the wrong people. If only we could put all the anger that we are directing towards Europe onto the injustices in our countries we would be far much better. I only wish I had the courage. But where i come from human rights is a joke. You speak about injustices you are shot to death in broad daylight
Exactly! some of the commenters are just ignorant about the whole situation
As much as I sympathise with that man, it was his choice to move there. There is injustice everywhere
a choice with the hope for a better future, not being treated poorly, besides that these people dont have much of a choice as they dont have the same priviliges as others. With my dutch pp I have much higher chance of getting a well paid job.
Yup, say what you will about the mexican migrants but they work hard and they don’t b**ch
womp womp
Farmhand or slave? is definitely an extraordinary documentary! I truly did appreciate it so much. Thanks a lot for sharing! Keep it up!