FLORENCE - So far, the current was sufficient to go to the refrigerator. Inside were a Yomo, half a melon, a carton of milk, three eggs and a piece of cheese. The 'last supper with the family under one roof, to St. Luke, is a meal eaten in the dark in a small apartment in San Frediano. Cook for 46 years, from November two months without work and father of her first child had with G., already the mother of a girl child of 13 years. All 'early July had lowered the voltage of up to 15 percent. Yesterday, at five o'clock in the afternoon, the light on the ceiling has become a smoke-filled ball, then tac. And in a few hours will jump even gas and water, and the letter of eviction is input in a drawer for two weeks. Luke is a sunken, skin and bones from nine months a black beast gnawing slowly, "has never stopped. The first thing that sucks the crisis, however, is not light, and dignity. " Until June, he pulled out with the salary of his partner, 33 year old taken to 800 € in a McDonald's in Florence. Now she is on maternity leave, salary reduced by 20 percent in two weeks and by 70, ie 240 euro to advance four people "in a few days of my life spit on the streets, me and my family," says Luca. "I came from you because I did not know where to turn." At the beginning July had knocked on the door of Matteo Renzi, in one of Wednesday that the mayor devoted to dialogue with citizens. He tells his story to his secretary in a corridor "where we all felt, she said that after 48 hours m 'he recalled. Nothing. " Luca tried again after ten days and in the room instead of Clement VII sent him in Viale De Amicis, to 'the social department. The employee who deals with cases such as his is on vacation: he must wait for August 26. "I went there a lot. I was promised a job for a painter. I had they said that the painter had never done, but said he took the same m'avrebbero. Eventually one morning at 6 o'clock I come to Porta Romana, one reaches the cooperative and told me that he needed an expert because there was work to be delivered on the fly. So I restored the boot and a week ago I returned to De Amicis street. " Appointment with the caseworker another trip, "I said that to me could not do anything. I am not a foreigner or a convict or a drug addict. Has run even angry: "What shall I do, I give them to him pocket money?", He asked me to get out of doing the act the wallet from his pocket. " Caritas to beg for a plate of spaghetti it did not go so far Luke: "For 20 years I was the cook, but I do not take anyone. Too much experience, cost too much. That's what the crisis: the first thing that you humiliate and even then it takes away the shame. "
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