«In the Aosta Valley threatened for 3 hours in the refuge» Nightmare night for a group from Bergamo – EcoDiBergamo.it

“Under the gaze of the police who were taking him away, he told me:” Tell me where you live and I will go find you. “I did not want to believe it, for three hours we were under the control of that man.” Fabio Zamblera is traveling, he returns to Casazza with a group of friends and family after the planned holidays in the Champoluc mountains, in the Aosta Valley. Destination the Rifugio Baita Belvedere, a six-room diamond at 2400 meters that shines between the Alpe di Saler and the reflections of Monte Rosa.

“Mix with the best” is the poster that welcomes guests to the refuge, but for Zamblera and his group of 12 those three hours on Saturday night, from dinner to the arrival of the Brusson police, were a mixed bag. of disbelief, tension, fear, panic, relief, anger. With horror movie details, a little ‘Cape fear’, a little ‘Shining’. A multifaceted game, like those played by Zamblera, now a labor consultant for a family studio, on the football field, a golden boy from Atalanta’s nursery, pearl of the youth teams and then to Newcastle, north of England, to train at 17 with Owen under the gaze of Kevin Keegan. The future smiled at him, bewitching. Then the injuries, the return home, the choice of a “normal” life. What the afternoon should have been like in the refuge, under the stars of Valle d’Aosta.