The meeting took place in the office of the mayor of Donori Maurizio Meloni. «He apologized to me for the theft of vegetables from my farm, I saw the sorrow, the repentance, the sincerity in his eyes». Pierpaolo Melis, 56 years old, a farmer from Donori , left the Town Hall and showed up at the Carabinieri barracks: «I withdrew the complaint: that fellow villager of mine made a mistake and I'm sure he won't do it again. He was probably in a difficult personal time and didn't realize what he was doing. Fattu factu, I had turned to justice ( HERE IS THE NEWS ) not so much against that 62 year old man who I know well, as kids we worked together side by side as agricultural workers, but because I am exasperated and disappointed by the situation".
Which?
«The constant thefts I suffer in my company».
Since when?
«In recent years they have increased a lot. Watermelons, vegetables, tomatoes, courgettes are disappearing all the time. A serious damage for those who live from this. In Donori we all know each other, I don't deny that I have suspicions about some of my fellow villagers, I didn't imagine that among the petty thieves there could be that 62 year old man who has a fixed salary. He made a mistake and he certainly wasn't the one who often reaped what my family and I sow every year."
You care a lot about your company. «Yes, for me it is a second opportunity that life has given me. I worked as a tractor driver on a farm, I had some illnesses, I found myself considered invalid by the system and unemployed from one day to the next. It was 2008, I was 40 years old and had a family to support. A specialist understood what my pathology was, a mild form of epilepsy, and found the cure. I recovered and looked around: I took out a loan to expand our company on that land now plundered by thieves, I'm running the business with the help of my wife, I can't bear to see this sacrifice being wasted by thieves. And not only".
