Andrée-Marie Dussault
Locarno
Published on July 1, 2024 at 9:54 p.m. / Modified on July 1, 2024 at 9:58 p.m.
Arriving in Cevio, the sight of the collapsed Visletto bridge – cutting the Maggia Valley in two – is desolate. A dissonance in a magnificent Swiss landscape. After the merciless storms that occurred on the night of Saturday and Sunday in the upper Maggia Valley, the eponymous river has calmed down a little, but it is still raging. We cross it thanks to the small bridge intended for pedestrians and cyclists. On the other side, men and women in fluorescent yellow and orange bibs come and go under a blazing sun.
Loads of hundreds of bottles of drinking water are transported to the Coop in Cevio, where on Monday morning all the supplies were already exhausted. Every now and then a helicopter flies overhead. “In Val Bavona the situation is unimaginable; part of the territory has been completely wiped out,” exclaims Fiorenzo Dado, president of the Ticino Centre, present in Cevio, and who has a property in Roseto, a village in Val Bavona.
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