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RONCADE – Blocked in London by the new emergency: the English variant of the virus. These are dramatic days for many Treviso people struggling with the blockade of flights to the homeland. After the case of the opitergino Davide Moretto, in London for work and unable to return for the funeral of his father Ruggero, 69, who died of Covid, there is also the case of Vittoria Danieli, 25, from Roncada. By Sunday afternoon he should have returned to Italy. But the sudden order signed by the Italian Ministry of Health, which stopped all incoming flights from Britain, blocked her in the London capital when she was about to board. It was 5.38pm local time when his flight and 4 other flights were canceled without warning on billboards at Stansted airport. Chaos has broken out around him. Nobody knew what to do and how to behave.
THE HISTORY
Vittoria is a bright young graduate, employed in the human resources sector of the e-commerce giant Amazon for a year and a half. On Sunday afternoon he had arranged to return to Italy, with his parents Stefano and Monica, where he would stay for a month. It was a long-planned trip, in which he would take advantage not only to stay with his family but also to manage some commitments, including some routine medical visits booked with trusted Italian specialists. He had prepared for this trip by scrupulously respecting the recommended procedure against the risks of contagion from Covid, minimizing social life in recent months and working from home on a smart job. With him he had the plane ticket, the self-certification completed along with the negative result of the swab performed on Saturday in a private medical center. Before leaving home, at 2:50 p.m., he had checked that his 6:35 p.m. flight to Venice was confirmed. When we contacted her on the phone yesterday afternoon, Vittoria was still in shock. “Luckily I had a house to return to – says Vittoria – but I witnessed desperate scenes, of lonely people who did not know where to sleep and how to spend the days to come, since this ordinance will surely remain in force until January 6. There were very young boys, many of them returning from Erasmus or having signed an employment contract, who had closed their homes and were about to leave Britain for good. Many people were desperate, many were crying: here the hotels are closed, so the situation is even more dramatic. I overheard a girl talking to her parents on the phone and explaining that she had spent £ 500 to get back in, all her savings bleeding, and that she was broke. The airline explained to us that there is a return of the ticket, nothing more ».
GO TO
Vittoria is a flooded river, she is angry and confused. “I myself don’t know how or when I will be able to return to Italy. I have written to Farnesina and to the embassy, who knows if they will reply to me or if the Italian government will organize repatriation flights. We feel abandoned by our country. We take many means to get to the airport, even putting our safety at risk; there were people who had already checked their bags, it is not possible for a government to sign a directive with immediate effect, without even giving people time to organize. I was surprised by the situation and the reaction I saw from dozens of people around me. We are Italian citizens who have been denied essential rights, it is not admissible. ‘ Finally, Vittoria wants to reiterate a concept: «I would like to know that for many, returning to Italy was not a whim, returning with the family at Christmas, but something much more serious. For some, even a change of life, far from Great Britain.
Federica Florian
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