A court at the city of Patras in western Greece found guilty on Wednesday two of the four defendants of the shooting of migrant workers in Peloponnese peninsula last year which resulted in 28 injuries in a case which had shocked the country.

Foremen Yorgos Haloulos and Yorgos Apostolopoulos were found guilty of serious bodily harm and being accessory to serious bodily harm respectively. The sentences have not been announced yet.

The owner of the strawberry farm in Nea Manolada where the incident happened was found innocent, as well as another foreman.

The attack occurred in April 2013 when dozens of mainly Bangladeshi fieldworkers complained about unpaid wages.

The unprecedented shooting was strongly denounced as racist and inhumane by Greece's government, political parties and society.

The government pledged to investigate working conditions of migrants in the area who claimed that several of about 5,000 people do not have residence permits and are working without insurance for low salaries in difficult conditions, without protesting for fear of deportation. Enditem

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