Willy: from Mattarella gold medal to the boy killed for 'exceptional attention to others'

The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, 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 with the following motivation: "With exceptional selfless enthusiasm and extraordinary determination , giving evidence of marked sensitivity and attention to the needs of others, intervened in defense of a friend in difficulty, trying to favor the peaceful solution of a heated discussion. "While he did his utmost in this meritorious action of high civic value, he was struck by some subjects who arrived who began to rage repeatedly against him with unprecedented violence and continued to beat him even when he fell unconscious, until he tragically lost his life - writes Mattarella in the reasons for awarding the gold medal to Willy Monteiro, on the proposal of the Minister of the Interior Lamorgese "." A shining example, - he concludes - also and for the younger generations, of generosity, altruism, courage and uncommon civic sense, pushed to the extreme sacrifice ".