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– They want a medal for the nanny who saved a family from a fire, but was burned in the flames.
“His face will be painted in a building like Maradona in Naples and the Pope in Rome.”
“Bulgarian trace, Bulgarian majority, Bulgarian decree … In Italian there is no other name of the people than Bulgarian, which is associated with so many negative meanings,” wrote Professor Enrico Testa of the University of Genoa. The professor of history of the Italian language even published a book in 2019 in which he investigates extensively and extensively where the origin of this offensive reputation of the word “Bulgarian” comes from.
In this case, it is a definition that has been used in the Italian language for years to insult not only politicians and journalists, but also ordinary citizens, to emphasize how gray, gloomy, sad, undemocratic that is something.
Bulgarian or
Bulgarians are not
who knows what
compliment
in Italy
and in its first meaning as the name of a nation. This is because, even 31 years after the advent of democracy, many, and not just average Italians, have only a vague idea of exactly what the people of this Balkan country are like.
Very often, the “Bulgarian” facts in the Italian chronicles are related to crime or prostitution. There was a lot of noise for Bulgarians in May 2020, when during the pandemic in Mondragon, near Naples, Bulgarian gypsies working in agriculture threw chairs from the balconies of abandoned blocks to protest against the authorities for quarantining them. For the dozens of COVID cases. among them. Social networks erupted in discontent against these disobedient compatriots who instead of sitting closed, wanted to go to the fields to earn money harvesting tomatoes. Then all the televisions broadcast images of the Roma rebels, whom they called Bulgarians everywhere, and of the dozens of reinforcements sent to protect them.
Ironically, a few months later, in the same campaign, the Bulgarians were talked about again, but this time
the hundreds
comments for
Natalia overflows
of praise
on social media.
Natalia Dimitrova Belova, 56, from the village of Borovan in Vratsa, is the heroine who saved an elderly Italian couple from a fire on March 8, whom she cared for at their home in Batipalya. He then returned to the burning apartment to retrieve his documents, but suffocated and died. Many ask why he had to return, but only those who have not lost documents in a foreign country during a pandemic do not know what that means.
In the Italian media it is forbidden to mention nationality in the headlines, because in some cases it can be considered a manifestation of racism. Natalia was everywhere described as a “badante” or nanny who sacrificed her life for two adults. However, there was no reader who did not understand that behind the heroic gesture, as defined by all the media, a Bulgarian woman hides.
And a miracle happened
– In the area
Bell,
Where months ago the Bulgarian carriers of the coronavirus were crucified, crucified from the blocks of Mondragón, they have now launched a campaign to paint Natalia’s face as a mural on a building. And those “murals”, as they call the images on the walls in Italy, are enjoyed in Naples by people like Maradona and in Rome, like the Pope, for example.
“Dear editor-in-chief, Natalia Belova was the Bulgarian nanny who died in the fire in the village where her elderly owners live, which she saved. Batipalya, the city where she lived, declared herself in mourning. In the days of Murales, Natalia he would have deserved one: he was
good man,
modest, daring
and worker
Perhaps no intellectual or representative of the so-called civil society would not have signed such an appeal to dedicate it to a mural on the city walls of Batipallia or Naples. Too unknown and doomed to recent oblivion. But not for us. “This is what Neapolitan Elvira Perry wrote to the editor-in-chief of the Matino newspaper, Federico Monga, who published the letter in the newspaper published in Naples.
In her response, we read that Natalia’s tragic story has become a symbol of women’s self-sacrifice, especially since it happened on March 8. Although he does not like to sign appeals, Monga says he joins the proposal to remember the Bulgarian in a similar way.
That is why it is quite real in the future that Bulgarians visiting Naples or Batipalya will see on a wall the face of this little woman who made this great gesture. In Italy, this is how people’s love is expressed.
Most likely
after death
Natalia will be
given by
The Italian
country and
institutions
The Batipal city council has already asked for her to be declared an honorary citizen. According to the Italian Institute of Statistics, more than 1,700 Bulgarians live in the province of Salerno, where Batipalla is located. Most of the women work as babysitters for the elderly and the men in agriculture.
Many do not have regular employment contracts, which means that they are not insured in the event of an accident. In the days of COVID, the situation of these Bulgarian citizens in Italy is even more dramatic if they have no other place to stay.
Ironically, a few tens of kilometers from the place where Natalia died, is the “Bulgarian” village of Celle di Bulgaria. And it is, like Batipalya, in the Cilento area, where centuries ago the people of the Bulgarian Khan Alcek settled. In 2016, a monument to Khan Alcek was unveiled in Celle.
For Natalia Belyova, whose life evaporated for a moment after years of trials and deprivation in Italy, today’s monument is the hundreds of comments on social media. They come from ordinary Italians, politicians and parties, who express spontaneously and in simple words their admiration for the heroism of this unknown Bulgarian.
On the official Facebook profile of the Democratic Party, the comment was made by one of its leaders, writer Nicola Odati.
“This is a story of extreme solidarity and great pain. A story that deserves to be told so that no one forgets Natalia Belova, her selflessness and great humanity. It is not our origins that determine us, but only our actions, and we do not forget it never, ”Odati wrote.
“Natalia, forgive us that we found out about you and your humanity only after your tragic end. We could have done much more for you, but so far only the nanny came from Eastern Europe. Forgive our hypocrisy,” wrote Giovanna Cellini.
“A good and generous soul who deserved to live,” commented Topatsia Ramon.
“How many of these
women and men
are forgotten
and without rights
We should be ashamed and give them dignity, ”wrote Miriam Rivalta.
“This is a gesture of great love with which paradise was deserved,” said Rosa Aniello.
Rubina Marino adds that she would like the royal gestures to follow the self-sacrifice of the Bulgarian. “A posthumous medal for civic courage. More royal gestures to help his family. A plaque to remember the most sublime gesture that can be done to save others.
Gracia Tuso invites Natalia to be immediately declared an honorary citizen and “Knight of Labor.”
“And to help
of the family,
that she left
in Bulgaria for
safe and sound
our grandparents “
Iside Stevanin commented that “it is not state borders, origin, language, religion, skin color that determine people, but themselves.”
Anna Baracano writes that she has great admiration for “a great woman.” Luciano Tono commented that Natalia deserved a medal from Italian President Sergio Matarella for saving two lives. Many other Italians joined his proposal.
Politician Tobia Dzevi also writes good words about Natalia: “When I hear a famous person attack immigrants for not having a heart, I want to tell them Natalia’s story.”
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