Merone, at the home of the trapper Simba the rue between Lamborghini for rental, sealed and parties at night. The country: « Now enough »
Merone, in Brianza, is the country of the idol of teenagers. The parish priest: « This community prefers the effort to the scent of money ». The projects for integration, the new oratory, the shame of the commuter station
The journey of the « Corriere » continues through the generation of the maranza. This time, for the fourth episode, we stopped in the geography of an idol of teenagers, the trapper Simba La Rue.
Fresh wind and distant clouds in the country of Merone, four thousand inhabitants in the province of Como, Erbese Brianza, one hour by car from Milan on the state road 36 of outlets and sometimes vacant commercial buildings, petrol stations, furnishings, 3 -star hotels.
A proud community, that of Merone, with a strong social fabric, with the pushed associations; After that the lake of Pusiano (carp and trout are fishing when they run away from a nearby artificial lake that children like, I drop the hook and soon they challenge), the parish plus the oratory in renovation (a vintage football field, of hard earth and stones, the naked doors of the nets, the colored balls everywhere, swollen, deflated, shiny, shiny), Child school in the conspicuous building that was the exclusive residence of the illustrious Cavalier Zaffiro Isaac, the most famous citizen in the centuries of the centuries before perhaps, have patience, of Simba La Rue; Therefore The level crossing, a short but tough ascent, real strap (the amateur runners get up on the pedals), finally the meadows on the left and on the right low houseswith well -kept gardens, order, those who pass and review the daino skin on the car, those who beat the mattresses on the balcony, a mother who cradles the son in the garden in the shade.
Here we are there.
Between continents
In one of the homes, that of the very beloved by Maranza Simba la rue, trapper with great talent, undisputedpity, of course, for the texts that invite to violate the rules, Born in Tunis in May 2002, at the registry office Mohamed Lamine Saidathere are the intercom with the surname « Saida » and no other item, a courtyard, a mobile doghouse for dogs, two bulldogs, a white motorcycle helmet, a black umbrella hooked to the railing of the window on the ground floor (on two total floors of the property), and a teenager in alert.
Is this the house of Simba La Rue? « No ».
Is your mom? « No, it’s away. »
Are you from your brother Simba? « Yes. No ».
Can I leave you my phone number? « For what? »
For your mom. « And why? »
I would like to talk to it. « What? »
Of your brother. “Don’t leave anything, I don’t think it’s interested. Until we meet again ».
In one of her books, the doctor Laura Volpini, criminologist and psychotherapisthe had already written years ago, regarding the second generation young people, of a « suspension between two cultures » and of a double ethnicity that generates a continuous comparison, the adults for whom migration is a temporary event which will follow the definitive return at home to death, and the descendants who usually remain to live abroad.
Then there are multiple variables.
The feud
For example, those triggered by an torturer. That is the father of the same Simba La Rue, who net of his 22 years is already burdened by a heavy criminal record (they just have it Re-arrested in Barcelonawhere he was for work, in relation to a penis cumulation for two final convictions).
In 2023 the carabinieri were taken away The Father In an investigation into family mistreatment. Years and years, since nineties, those of the engagement and marriage, of persecutions to the detriment of his wife. In front of the son, a hidden and curled spectator so as not to see. And not become a victim in turn.
In the street, ambulances remember. A continuous arrival. AND They remember the same woman who did everything in order not to report. It was terrified. They helped her. And she managed to get him away.
But then they started Tribulations for Simba: The bloody feud of the trapper, the injury to the leg with the risk of losing it, the investigation starring the then Gip Guido Salvini and the carabinieri, the boy’s passionate work, the lawyer Niccolò Vecchioni, the catches, the jail circuit.
Nights without peace
The gate of the oratory is open, a Moroccan volunteer sets what must be arranged; In the province the speakers are large geographies to play from morning to evening; The elderly arrive, they observe, control; the priest transits, Don Marco, a man of energy and acute thought, who had among the masters Don Rigoldi and meets Don Burgiofundamental for Simba having so encouraged him to music, in hope, vain so far, that it was the definitive salvation, the start of the rebirth, the blessed intersection of the swivel doors that everyone deserves.
Say Don Marco: «Merone is small but resistant. Includes, it does not abandon. Has always chosen fatiguedoes not chase the scent of easy money with drugs ». He tells us a neighbor of the Saida who, if he could, would change residence: «When that is not in prison, the street is a parking lot of bold machines that block the traffic, especially in the evening, at night. They go inside from him to make a bryry. A mess, you can’t sleep, we get up in the morning to work, and you can’t protest, maybe they come looking for and beat, they take revenge … « .
A yellow Lamborghini is frequent, you learn that she is renting in Switzerland, the friends of the trapper, her guests; Atomic roar, the sgasate, pathetic scenes from bullies.
The drug woods
Merone is a fief of Como, the football team in Serie Asocial color the royal blue (an electric blue welcome to eclectic painters); In a baretto there are shirts, scarves, stickers, magazines, force Como now and always. Fixed menu lunch for 9 euros. A bricklayer arrives for coffee, then another.
Muratori also, to redo the floor, in the railway station, one of those, as happens on the sections Comasche and Monzese and Pavesi and Varese of the commuters, the poor and flagellated commuters, who were actually abandoned. For real.
No ticket office, no shops: they have eliminated the human figures, passengers pass through it and that’s it. Not the disabled ones, they cannot, in Merone, The two lifts are in repairconfirms it a sign, which also indicates the End of the works: on April 14, 2025. In fact we approach in May. Shame.
We have already talked about it, and we will do it again. Because this theory, the criminological theory of the « broken windows » often helps to understand many things. Where damage to an urban environment, caused by vandalisms or neglect, remain damage, by the failure to renovate those of duty, therefore making the indifference triumph, the sloppiness, the postponement, the rip -off, here, we contribute to creating a general atmosphere of disorder and illegality. I have been seeing in a neighborhood a broken window there for weeks, for months, and if you have damaged a second one will say nothing. End.
Further on, the tracks line forests included naturalistic oases, school groups on a trip.
These are the woods where they lived, the usual North Africans drug dealers lived on. Almost exclusive Moroccan. Like those in the woods in the province of Varese, or those in the Groane park. Policemen and carabinieri had made them outflow not without effort in the seasons following the end of the pandemic. But nothing is eternal, even Merone Pippano, even in Merone they end up under drugs, and someone, understood as pusher, sometimes returns. And if not here, elsewhere around.
Rebels and former rebels
At the beginning, with the enormous success, in Merone the farewell teenagers went outside the home of Simba La Rue. Selfies. Waiting for a photograph. In the long run they tired. So they swear us.
Teenagers. The psychotherapist Alfio Bendolini is a column of the MinoTauro Foundation, specialists who study this age: « Today’s kids are more anxious and less rebellious. They have a greater shame. There are many themes to talk about ».
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