With the Easter celebrations have arrived in fine weather, and the time of the year that opens is the one where Umberto Tiberi, 87, can quietly install his plastic chair in front of his small cafe from the distant peripheral district of Tor Bella Monaca, with the final borders of the Italian capital. The weather is beautiful, spring settles down, but for this former worker of the chemical industry who opened his “Italia bar” after many years of exile in Germany, the bottom of the air has something sad.
The day before, Monday, April 21, Pope Francis died at the age of 88. “It was the Pope of the Poor!” François liked to be simply with us … a human pope. We will miss it a lot… ”, regret the coffee maker. Head of the Universal Church, the Sovereign Pontiff is also the bishop of Rome and, on the scale of the planet as well as his diocese, François said he wanted to give priority to the peripheries and those who populate them.
In Italian, the term “periphery »Also designates very concretely the suburbs of major cities, such as Tor Bella Monaca, whose social buildings with rectilinear silhouettes stand with their tired facades 15 kilometers from Saint-Pierre square, an hour and a half of trips in public transport.
Like other inhabitants of a district which he describes as suffering from a “Bad reputation”Umberto Tiberi remembers with emotion this March 8, 2015, the day when Pope Francis had moved to them at the beginning of his pontificate to give a mass to Santa Maria Madre del Redentore church. Very close, this imposing modern building with the false pagoda airs, built in the 1980s, detonates, between a hypermarket, buildings of buildings and a public garden with uncultivated lawns.
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Source: Lemonde