5 hours agoSyrian Life: From the Aleppos bombs to the Madrid tunnels
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Omar's used to living in secret. His life has been marked by shadows, like a candle lighting every night in an emergency exit located inside a tunnel network under the collection of residential buildings, office spaces, and stores known as A ZCA, Madrid's financial circle. The first were the bombs [...]
The first were bombs in Syria, where he was born 67 years ago. But the last six years he's spent in underground traffic spaces because he has nowhere to go.
He has no one he can help. “El Pais”, Transmission Periscope.
Like it, another 20 people were placed in a tunnel where three lanes have been shut in circulation since January because of leaks on walls.
A bricklayer and businessman, Omar had a strong twom-long house in Syria. He lost his wife and two children to the bombings that hit Alepon, but he refuses to talk about it in detail. I've been dead ever since. ”
While city authorities discuss what they should do about the leaks, Omar is protected from the cold with a collection of blankets.
The currents aren't so bad here, and he shares this space with five Spaniards./Periscopi/
