Rinaldo, l’eroe di Capricchia che vigila sulle case

NEWS (Amatrice). "I'm staying here, I'm not leaving." Rinaldo is 82 years old, having lived all his life in Capricchia, a hamlet of Amatrice that has three resident families but fills up with people in the summer. He's the only one still living in Capricchia, which was destroyed by the earthquake, and the Civil Protection has entrusted him with the task of keeping watch over the homes. "The danger is especially at night; they come, enter the houses, and take whatever they find." He was in bed the night of the earthquake, and he'll never forget that "hellish whistle coming from the bowels of the earth." We went to meet him and had him accompany us through what has now become a "ghost town." (Giuliano Rosciarelli/alaNEWS)