TWO STRANGE POLICEMEN
19 July 2010
According to statistics, the summer of 2010 had been classified as one of the hottest in the last one hundred years. I was sitting at my desk reading the background article of one of the newspapers I bought every morning before going to work. The civil protection had warned of heat for the next three weeks, during which no rain was expected. And in fact the thermometer easily exceeded 40 degrees in the middle of those days of mid-July. The effect of this was also being felt in our offices. Those who could had left on vacation, and those who were still on duty tried to remain inside in the cool of the air conditioning, avoiding outside services as much as possible. My team was decimated. Gaetano had taken a month off to return to Calabria, his place of
