For sale. The commemoration, written in black marker on old wooden signs, adorns some of La Salvetat’s cobblestone buildings. A few passers-by would almost be led to believe that the 1,200 souls of this medieval village of Hero, built a millennium ago as a refuge against bandits, would now be trying to escape. Could it be because of the silence that hangs over its small alleys, whose closed shutters and lowered iron curtains give it the appearance of a ghost town? About its certain isolation, because it is surrounded by three passes almost a kilometer high. Or because of the mysterious brigands who settled in the surrounding forests seven years ago.
“The brigands, you say.“. Salvetua’s eyes widen under the question. “It is a separate community that causes controversy, to admit halfheartedly Figaro a fifty-year-old young man from the area, posted in front of the pharmacy. But it was never a problem for us, all the locals could attest to that.”
Source: Le Figaro
