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Italy sent riot police Friday to a council estate in the south where a cluster of coronavirus cases among Bulgarian farm workers has fuelled tension with locals.
About 700 people placed in lockdown this week in the complex of five blocks of flats in Mondragone, north of Naples, would remain isolated for another 15 days, the Campania region's head Vincenzo De Luca said Thursday.
Local health authorities said 43 positive cases had been identified and all residents were being tested.
Four of the high-rises house Bulgarian workers and their families while Italian squatters occupy the fifth, De Luca said.
The estate is "one of the thousands of ghettos in Italy, where we amass more or less undocumented foreigners to make them live in more or less heinous conditions," said Corriere della Sera editorialist Goffredo Buccini.
The Bulgarians work without contracts under an illegal but well-established system known as "caporalato", which sees them do long hours in the fields for wages well below the national minimum, Italian newspapers said.
Men earn around four euros an hour, while women earn less and minors pocket just 75 cents an hour, according to Huffington Post Italia.
It said families were forced to pay rent under the table to the "caporali", or intermediaries who organise the daily recruitment and transport, and who also run the squats.
The army had sent 50 soldiers Thursday to help secure the zone after clashes between frustrated Bulgarians who wanted to return to work and angry locals who blamed them for spreading the virus.
Hundreds of Bulgarians who came out to demonstrate Thursday were persuaded by police to return inside, but locals who learned they had left the Palazzi Cirio estate then turned up to hurl stones and trash cars, local media reported.
A resident at the estate was photographed throwing a chair off his balcony towards the crowd in retaliation.
On Friday, the town was calm, the AGI press agency reported.
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