Rogoredo
The Rogoredo district, in the south-east of Milan, has been one of the largest heroin and cocaine market places in Europe. During the spring and summer of 2019 the hustle and bustle around the train station and the nearby “boschetto” (the grove)–where you could buy 24/7, use, and even camp–became so conspicuous that it began to attract considerable media attention. Things changed the following autumn due to massive law enforcement interventions. For a few months, trade went on intermittently and with much lesser turnout on the dead track that runs alongside the grove and under the ringroad bridges. With the beginning of 2020 and the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the business shrank even further. The abandoned farmhouse on Via Orwell, where many used to sleep, has been demolished. For the time being, Rogoredo's problems appear solved, while the predicament of drug-addicted people is still the same. They just moved elsewhere, where there is no news. Between one lockdown and another, however, sales have started again, and people are beginning to come back.
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