Any Better Off?

[EDDIE51]

The refugees saved by HMS Bulwark have been off loaded in Sicily
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33055697
Where they are likely to spend years as virtual slaves in work gangs run by the Mafia.
From the report on the BBC just now they may be worse off than they were in their homelands. Working for as little as E22 a week, living in a camp made of plastic sheets and cardboard with the police and government too scared of the Mafia to intervene.

[Bazile]

Some on here will be contented with that

[EDDIE51]

Link here can't find the BBC one yet
http://www.worldcrunch.com/migrant-lives/sicilian-mafia-cashes-in-on-desperate-immigrants/cara-center-immigration-sicily-corruption/c17s18416/#.VXXgH9LF9FE
The BBC one was worse , forced to live and work in fruit and veg fields with no food apart from some fruit and veg from the fields they were working in.Some said they had already been there over 2 years, but most were so afraid of the Mafia they would not talk.