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A few weeks ago a “clandestino” (illegal immigrant) saved a young girl from drowning in the Tiber river, she obviously had the intention to commit suicide. Not only did the media make him a hero, he also got official papers to stay in Italy, a home and a job.
Others seem to have learned the lesson. Two elder gentlemen who traditionally have been taking a bath in the Tiber river every year, naked by the way, found themselves surrounded by potential “savers” who left them with the alternative to either accept to be “saved” or they would steal their cloths. They actually had to accept to be saved, and will now have their annual Tiber bath in an official Rome river installation, probably not naked.
As people in Rome tend to be particularly inventive one can start from the assumption that in the near future money will be offered for specifically spectacular acts of “life savings”. Just another way of circumvention of Visa rules…