the investigation into the cooperatives of Aboubakar Soumahoro’s wife and mother-in-law

Aboubakar Soumahoro – Photo by Ansa Foto

The public prosecutor’s office opened an investigation in Latina to shed light on the allegations of ill-treatment reported by the Uiltucs union against the workers of the Karibu and Consorzio Aid cooperatives.

One is run by his mother-in-law, the other by the wife of the deputy of the Left-Green alliance Aboubakar Soumahoro. Some miners claim to have been mistreated and deprived of water and electricity in the structures, while around thirty employees believe that they have not received their salary for two years and have been forced to work illegally.

“Agreements also rejected before the Inspection”

To give the news, the newspaper La Repubblica. According to the workers, the agreements reached before the labor inspectorate have also been ignored. Some have complained of having received a request for false invoices to be paid.

Investigators acquired various documents, including screenshots of discussions between management and some workers, and others found in some trash cans in Sezze, where Karibu is based.

The latter is headed by Marie Terese Mukamitsindo, president of the CDS, and has Liliane Murekatete, Soumahoro’s wife, as adviser. In 2021, he received non-refundable Covid contributions of 227 thousand euros.

The other cooperative under investigation, the Aid Consortium, is an inclusion and rights agency and in 2020 obtained the mission of various services for foreigners in the prefecture of Latina, the municipality of Latina and that of Termoli. Also in this case, Mukamitsindo is headquartered in the CDA.

Soumahoro has yet to comment on the survey.

The former labor union leader, at the forefront of the battle against the executive on the issue of immigration and NGOs that save lives in the Mediterranean, has not yet commented on the investigation.

“Electricity and water have been cut off for a long time. There is no food or clothing. We were working and then they moved us to a place in Naples worse than the first and everyone who works here is racist,” testifies one of the guests, Nader, told La Repubblica.

Among the witnesses there is also Abdul, 17, who says that “last month there was no water or electricity. They sent us to bad places and even abused us”.