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Bergamo, with its historic city center, its prosperous business and Atalanta football stadium. This was Bergamo’s year: Atalanta was in the Champions League and the San Siro stadium in Milan was hired for the match against Valencia. February 19th
43,000 were gathered together, across the generations. A party of fate, followed by cheers, group hugs, and shared beer bottles. February 23, the crown center was registered in Italy. You didn’t know about the father when the game ended, but the soccer game
became a fatal bomb.
When the victory, drunk, was resolved, the nightmare began.
Bergamo became the symbol of suffering from the crown epidemic. When we saw military columns filled with coffins taken out of the city, the song on the balcony died down. The crematoria failed to take away more dead. The tragedy was complete.
Bergamo today
It is quiet in the car while I and the photographer drive in the rain towards Bergamo. The photographer Francesco that I use regularly didn’t get a chance to go to the epicenter of the coronavirus, but photographer Ilir Kertusha originally from
Albania unites. We have gloves and double stitches. We never take them off until we walk in the front door late at night.
We are the only ones running in this direction. When we get to Bergamo there is no police barrier. Then it surprises me: nobody is going to go here now. Who wants to travel to Bergamo? We drive to the old town. magnificent
The villas are located around well-kept gardens. This is one of the richest areas in Italy. I see a Maserati and other large parked cars. But there are no people.
A ghost town
We walk through the old town and meet a young priest. He invites us to church.
– Aren’t churches closed?
– I stay open in the morning so you can come to pray, to light a candle. It is difficult to be a priest, not being able to gather the congregation, not getting comfort as I would like, he says.
The priest uses the phone and electronic aids to get in touch with people, but it is not the same. An old woman with a protective mask enters and we leave.
We continue inland and find Elena, who runs a small grocery store.
“We remain open so that the elderly and others do not have to leave the old town to buy food,” he says.
People like her are the main artery. Only contact with the outside world for many. She is angry with the authorities and thinks they should be closed immediately.
– They should have done it before the disaster became a fact. But no one is to blame. Too bad, Elena says.
A man comes out with shopping bags. Maurizio is a retired doctor and says he has been seen for weeks. Together with the Rotary organization, it has created 120 new emergency telephone lines.
– We have a lot of courage and we drive here in Bergamo. But it was horrible, he says, and he walks around with the shopping bags.
The streets are otherwise empty. It is so beautiful here in the old town and it is good for it to rain, because there are some tears that nobody sees. For Bergamo and for Italy. It feels in the body that it weighs the pain. This area has lost
five thousand Bergamo will rise again. But it will be a new calculation of time. The inhabitants here are marked for life.
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