Hello, my name's David Rundsenman and this is Talking Politics.

It's been a little more than a month since we last spoke to Lucia Rubinelli,

who is locked down in northern Italy, about the situation there.

We thought it was time that we caught up.

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Lucia is locked down in the mountains.

The weather's not great, nor is the internet connection.

So we apologise if it sounds like there's a bit of interference on the line.

Hi, Lucia.

Hello.

How are you, to start with a month on no i'm a bit bored at the moment especially because we were hoping that um the situation would ease a bit especially because i mean

a small village in the alps but a week ago we dared to go a bit further than allowed in our daily walk

and the police caught us and it was not a nice five minutes.

Wow. What were you threatened with?

800 euros. Yeah, fine of 800 euros. And they knew you'd gone further because they'd been tracking you,

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