Bread is the only good not to be lacking: it is produced in the village. But to export it to neighboring countries, the baskets must be carried by hand. But in Banari there is no mobile telephone line, the Arst couriers no longer arrive. To leave the town: either you use old roads that are almost impassable, or you have to rely on friends or acquaintances who arrive by car beyond the checkpoint.
The border is on the provincial road 41 Bis for Siligo, the only access and the only exit: here on 30 May bad weather brought down the old Roman bridge on which the road rests. And the Province has ordered the closure.
"We have plunged into the 19th century, without even a single road", explains the councilor for social policies of Banari, Francesco Di Stefano, "isolated, without even a date being hypothesized for the end of these very heavy hardships".
The Banarese who work in the rest home of Siligo «arrive in this sort of Gaza Strip, they continue on foot over the bridge, and someone has to go and get them. What if there should be an emergency, requiring an ambulance?” , asks the representative of the municipal council. Rhetorical question: emergency vehicles cannot pass there.
The Banari community fears that the solution – an intervention on the bridge – is far from close. For this Friday the administration, with that of Siligo, has convened a meeting in the Town Hall to which the Province and Region are also invited: the appointment is for 12, replies are awaited.
