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07 October 2020The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, today signed, on the proposal of the Minister of the Interior, the decree conferring the gold medal for civil valor in memory of Willy Monteiro Duarte.



This is the motivation: "With exceptional altruistic enthusiasm and extraordinary determination, giving evidence of marked sensitivity and attention to the needs of others, he intervened in defense of a friend in difficulty, trying to favor the peaceful solution of a heated discussion. in this meritorious action of high civic value, he was hit by some subjects who arrived who began to rage repeatedly against him with unprecedented violence and continued to beat him even when he fell to the ground unconscious, until he tragically lost his life. , also for the younger generations, of generosity, altruism, courage and uncommon civic sense, pushed to the extreme sacrifice ".



The meaning of the medal


The medal for civil valor in memory of Willy Monteiro, on the proposal of the Minister Lamorgese, rewards acts of exceptional courage that show extraordinary civic virtue and marks the authors as worthy of public honor.

Recipients are citizens who have exposed their lives to manifest danger in order to save people exposed to imminent and serious danger;

to prevent or lessen the damage of a major public or private disaster;

to restore public order, should it be seriously disturbed, and to maintain the force of the law;

to arrest or participate in the arrest of criminals;

for the advancement of science or in general for the good of humanity;

to keep the name and prestige of the homeland high.