Willy Monteiro Duarte

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    A day in memory of Willy: the murals and the torchlight procession

  • The last farewell to Willy: river of white shirts at the funeral as a sign of 'purity'

  • The torchlight procession in memory of Willy who died in Colleferro during a beating, Paliano

  • Boy beaten to death, 4 young people arrested.

    City mourning in Paliano and Colleferro

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October 26, 2020

"It is a violence that unfortunately we can take as emblematic and calls everyone to take collective responsibility. To avoid a repeat of a case like Willy Monteiro's, we must all make an effort every day. Martin Luther King said that it is not the fear that is frightening. violence of the bad but the indifference of the good ".

Thus Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte speaking at the ceremony for Willy Monteiro, at the "Michele Maria Milano" State Industrial Technical Institute in Polistena (Rc), in whose courtyard a plaque was dedicated in memory of the young man who was beaten to death outside a Colleferro nightclub .

At the foot of an olive tree the inscription: "Willy's tree". 

"We must unhinge violence, make sure that it is not attractive. And the best way is to study, only suitable cultural tools prevent the attractiveness of violence", explains Conte in his video intervention.

"The mythology of violence is contrasted with study, culture redeems us from these moral baseness", he added.

The number of public bodies is growing, which are communicating the decision to name streets, squares, gardens in memory of the young man to whom Mattarella awarded the medal for civil valor.

The same city of Paliano, Willy's town, immediately after the crime inaugurated a large mural with the boy's face and announced a tender for the construction of a work for the Capuchin garden.

"We must not think that" Willy's gesture "requires heroic activity. He had the courage, the strength and also the dignity to intervene in a highly dangerous context and he lost his life", explained Conte.

"Willy was a good guy. It was said, and I liked it," Willy wasn't a hero. "