BATTIPAGLIA – A blanket of stars and a mattress of sand. It was Afia Abderrahman’s sea view house. The house of “Amin”, because in Battipaglia they called him that 29 year old Moroccan without a past. One of the thousands of shadows that populate the crumbling no man’s land, the coast of the Piana del Sele, squeezed between Battipaglia and Eboli, scattered with dilapidated huts and dilapidated disused caravans. At the beginning “Amin” lived in one of the abandoned caravans among the pines of the coastal strip, in the company of two compatriots. Then the evacuation and the forced “move” on the shoreline of the beach. The golden sand of Lido Lago became the bed of the Moroccan general of the Daesh. “He also plunged into the water in February – the memory of a Battipagliese who lives nearby – and then prayed, facing the sea.” His gaze turned to the waves: who knows if they reminded him of those crashing against the port of his Tangier, a piece of Morocco that overlooks the Strait of Gibraltar and proudly stands out in front of Spain.
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