Boatloads of desperate people are turning up every day on the Egyptian coast. They are dreaming of going to Israel and from there to the United States to join up with the millions of their fellow nationals who have emigrated. They are coming from every part of Italy. A nation destroyed by the economic default and by the radiation coming from the new-born nuclear reactor at Caorso. They are disembarking on the beaches of Alessandria and Damietta exhausted by the journey with “la Gazzetta dello Sport” of three days earlier. They got on the boats by paying thousands of euro to the merchants of humans at Genoa, Naples, Palermo, Cagliari, and even Stromboli where the volcano has become active again.
The Egyptian government has set up wire netting camps in a semi-desert area where, by now there are tens of thousands of clandestines crammed together. Some of them, under the terrified eyes of the Egyptians, climbed over the fencing and have fled towards freedom. The police chased them on camels. Protests of the peasants of Tanta because of Italians climbing up the date trees and starting to eat the fruit. The same happened in Helwan in a banana plantation. Local groups have started to “hunt the clandestines”.
The Egyptian Prime Minister has gone to Alessandria to reassure the inhabitants and he bought a villa on the coast as a demonstration of his good faith. The Minister of the Interior has flown to Rome to ask the Pope, the only person of authority left in Italy, to take charge of the Catholics that have invaded Egypt. The Pope replied that he will pray for them. Thousands of Italians are to be found in the Gulf of Aqaba, after swimming across the Red Sea, on the way to Tel Aviv. Israel is not willing to welcome them and it has officially protested to the Arab League. The Egyptian Minister for Reforms has proposed to naturalise the Italians as Palestinians and to move them to the Gaza Strip. After long negotiations with Veltroni, who has been self-elected head of the “differently refugees”, the proposal was turned down for fear of friendly bombing, a frequent phenomenon in that area. The Egyptian Minister for Reforms has not accepted defeat and has issued a decree for the circumcision of all the infidel clandestines on Egyptian territory.
Many of the displaced people have got busy as black market slaves for the reconstruction of the Pyramid of Cheops. When interviewed by CNN they declared that they never want to go back to Italy again. In Egypt they are better paid, they don’t run the risk of dying at work and the air is better. A poster captured by the TV camera proclaimed “Better to be a slave in Egypt than a precarious worker in Italy”.

Ps. Today, 6 April at 9:00 pm, the Blog will broadcast in direct streaming "Le fiamme e la ragione {flames and reason}", the assassination of Giordano Bruno by being sentenced to a fire, as told by Corrado Augias.