"Oronz lu pacc" = Oronzo the madman

Brain damaged after a police beating as a teen....he wanders Ostuni, shouting, and smoking...His parents care for him, but are now old....he is looked on with kindness by the residents of our neighborhood, where he lives...

On the Appian Way....

April 29th 2016
We checked out of our apartment on Friday morning, after first hearing the story of the "madman" of Ostuni. He is an older man who walks around shouting in a peculiar, but very loud voice, often in front of our apartment, It turns out that he stole a pack of cigarettes when he was 17, and the police beat him so badly that he has permanent brain damage....very, very sad. We had to walk quite a w ... read more

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