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Despite the passage of a full year since the tragedy, the images of military trucks carrying the coffins of the victims of the Corona virus with the start of the epidemic on March 18 of last year, which shocked the whole world, are still trapped. the minds of Italians in the city of Bergamo.
Last March alone, 670,000 people died in Bergamo, which has 120,000 people, and about 6,000 in the region that bears the same name known as “Wuhan Italia”, five to six times more than usual, according to the National Institute of Statistics.
At the height of the outbreak, churches used to pray in coffins every 10 minutes. “At first the trucks came at night, and nobody was supposed to know that the coffins were being transported to another place,” said one of the priests of the Monumental Cemetery Church.
Trucks transported up to 70 coffins a day from the church to other areas because the funeral parlors were full.
Bergamo truck
There is no place for cremation
The cemetery crematorium could no longer keep up with the human disaster caused by the virus. Coffins were sent to Bologna, Modena and Ferrara for cremation.
And later that cemetery became a symbol of the suffering of an entire nation, especially since almost everyone in Bergamo lost a family member, friend, colleague or neighbor.
And in the cemetery are lavish mausoleums made of marble, along with hastily dug graves, most of them without a headstone, with nameplates and photographs of the deceased.
Truck Italy
On the first line
Regarding that bitter experience, a 38-year-old woman who works in a funeral home said: “Usually we organize 1,400 funerals a year, but in March 2020 we organize a thousand funerals, that is, a whole year of work in a month”.
He also added that he passed under balconies with coffins, taking photographs of the corpses, so that isolated relatives could take a last look at their loved ones.
Bergamo
“We will deny it”
“We spent a month without knowing the whereabouts of the corpse of my father, who died of Covid on March 11 at the age of 85 in a nursing home,” said Luca Fusco, president of the “Noi Denonchirimo” association.
Three weeks later, his son Stefano established this group (“We will deny it”) to defend Covid victims on Facebook, and the next day there were four thousand and now there are 70 thousand.
Subsequently, 250 requests were submitted to report the facts to the authorities without complaining to the Bergamo Prosecutor’s Office to “repair all those who died of Covid.” An investigation has been opened.
If all these tragedies, the people of that Italian city remembered them a few days ago, at the same time that they commemorated the tragedy that fell on them, the world of the past, relaxed shades of sadness wherever it struck.
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