Francesco Facchinetti, at home in isolation because he was positive for Covid, tells two curious anecdotes that date back to when he was a correspondent for "The Island of the Famous".
First episode, we are in Honduras: “At the time, it was 2006, Honduras was a very violent country, I don't know now, but at the time it was very violent - said Facchinetti -. We were near a city called La Ceiba, where you could not go around alone, because there were gangs, one was called Mucha Mi * rda and the other Eighteen and they went around with their rifles to rob, shoot and kill people. This gang, the Eighteen, its members had an 18 tattooed on their stomach and I have a very large eight tattooed on my stomach. While I was at the beach, walking, at one point some cops saw me and saw the tattoo, so they thought I was a killer of this '18' gang and they took me to the police station. Then after a while those from the Island of the Famous came to get me and explained to the police that I was not a dangerous criminal from Honduras, but that I was the correspondent for the broadcast and they released me ”.
In Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, another one happened to him: “I am in the capital of Nicaragua, where I am waiting for a small plane to arrive on an island that was the Island of the Famous. The plane is late, I wait, then I break, go out and sit on a low wall, there are people looking at me, but I don't pay any attention. After about an hour they come to me, they were plainclothes policemen and they ask me where I am from. I tell them I'm Italian, they ask me where and I say Bergamo. As soon as I say Bergamo, they all become serious, they take me to a closet and give me the third degree ".
They explain to him that "one of the greatest European drug traffickers is from Bergamo" and force him to open his suitcases. But since they don't let him go, “I tell him that I am a singer and that I did a song with Pavarotti. They don't believe it, so we went to YouTube and found the piece 'Ti adoro - DJ Francesco feat. Pavarotti 'and so in the end they believed me and never released. Thank you master, you saved me. They all happen to me… ".
(Unioneonline / D)
