Strawberry pickers injured in Greece farm shooting

Around thirty strawberry pickers were injured in a shooting at a farm in southern Greece this week.

Reports state that a farm supervisor fired at a crowd of roughly two hundred migrant workers.

The migrants were hired to pick strawberries at the farm in Nea Manolada.

On the day of the incident, workers had gathered to ask their employers for unpaid salaries.

So far police arrested the farm’s owner and a foreman.

The shooting sparked a social media campaign calling for a boycott.

The campaign is urging people not buy the so-called “blood strawberries” grown in Nea Manolada.

According to the BBC, this region employs thousands of migrant workers.

A European human rights watchdog recently condemned Greece for exploiting and abusing its migrant workers. 

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STORY WRITTEN BY: ALYSSA TREMBLAY