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Flat White

The siege of the shrine

12 January 2022

4:00 AM

12 January 2022

4:00 AM

‘Stop making me do this,’ he said, as he pounded my head into the ground with his plastic shield. ‘Stop making me do this.’

‘I’m not making you do it!’ I said, though I don’t know if he heard me above all the yelling and screaming.

Next to me, Giuseppe Grasso, a short and stocky Italian man, was being pounded too.

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