A group of strawberry pickers from Bangladesh has won a case against Greece at Europe’s highest human rights court. The farmers were shot at by their previous employer in Manolad after Peloponnese refused to pay 5 months of unpaid wages to the pickers.
The court ruled in favor of 42 Bangladeshi nationals, and ordered the Greek state to pay them damages of 12,000-16,000 euros each for having “failed in its obligations to prevent the situation of human trafficking, to protect the victims.” The ECHR also granted them 4,363 euros to cover trial expenses.
The 2013 incident occurred near the southern Greek town of Manolada, 260 kilometers (160 miles) west of Athens, when more than 20 migrant strawberry pickers were shot and wounded by foremen wielding shotguns after demanding delayed pay.
At least twenty-eight strawberry field workers from Bangladesh were transferred to hospital with light injuries on April 17, 2013 after being shot by the foremen of their employer.
source: keeptalkinggreece.com
