Truck driver whips migrant women with belt in Italy

Video shows a truck driver whipping a group of Eritrean and Ethiopian women with a belt after he found them in his lorry trying to cross the border to France at Ventimiglia.

The video has caused widespread shock and indignation in Italy.

Italian police are looking into the incident and trying to identify the trucker, who is thought to be Bulgarian.

“The images of the truck driver filmed while whipping migrants in Ventimiglia were ugly, uncivilized and inhumane,” said former labour minister Andrea Orlando, an MP for the centre-left Democratic Party (PD).