Probe shows exploited migrants paid just 3 euros per hour

(ANSA) - Rome, January 22 - Police in the northern city of Cremona on Tuesday carried out an operation to arrest suspected gang-masters who are accused of forcing migrants to work in degrading and unsafe conditions for just three euros per hour, investigative sources said.
    According to the probe, which was carried out between April and November last year, the criminal ring of gang-masters used migrants to collect second-hand clothes that were subsequently sold in North Africa.
    The organization, made up of non-EU nationals with the exception of one Italian suspect, operated in Cremona as well as in the provinces of Como, Bergamo and Reggio Emilia, investigators said.
    Three people were taken to jail while the Italian suspect was put under house arrest.