“After all, what did they do? Nothing. They just killed a non-EU citizen.” The words of a relative of one of those arrested for the brutal murder of twenty-one Willy Monteiro in Colleferro, heard by a witness and reported to the police, also prompted Chiara Ferragni and Fedez to intervene in the matter. “Where will we end up?” Asks Ferragni, sharing a comment from her husband on an article by Republic. “Condolences to the family,” adds the influencer. I regret that in addition to suffering you also have to suffer these things ”.
A few stories later, Ferragni always shares with his 20 million followers an explanation of what happened, published by the popular Instagram profile @spaghettipolitics, which often explains the main news from Italy to an international audience in Italian and English. “Two days ago Willy Monteiro, a 21-year-old Italian with black skin, was killed,” says the post, “by a group of four rafters who kicked him to death.” The words that the entrepreneur shares are extraordinarily radical by her standards: “The problem can be solved by changing and canceling the fascist and always resistant culture in this country, not canceling the means by which the fasces have committed violence. The problem is not solved by hiding it under the rug, it is solved with culture and education ”.
While trying to shed as much light as possible on the murder of Willy, who was allegedly beaten to death for trying to defend a Colleferro schoolmate from a beating, the hypothesis of a racial aggravating circumstance is not excluded. Beyond the words of the relative of one of the four young people from Artena, spoken in front of the Colleferro gun barracks, there were also several markedly racist comments written years ago by Gabriele Bianchi, one of the two brothers arrested for the death of Willy. . A drop in the ocean of xenophobia and racism that has been ruined daily on social media for years.
If the mayor of Colleferro swears that his country “has never been racist” and that Willy and his family, of Cape Verdean origin, “here in Paliano have never had problems”, we cannot ignore the clear sympathies that the company that included the four detainees nurtured by the extreme right.
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Willy, 20 minutes of beating. And the relatives of the murderers: “He was just an immigrant”
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A thought for Willy also from Emma Marrone, Levante, Claudio Marchisio, Ermal Meta
However, Chiara Ferragni and Fedez were not the only celebrities affected by the death of the 21-year-old. In an Instagram post, singer Emma Marrone expressed concern about “a country that is succumbing to a very low cultural level”, adding that “ignorance breeds violence.”
Even the singer Levante, like Chiara Ferragni, stops at the words “they only killed a non-EU citizen.” “If it was really said,” she writes, “this is not just a story of violence.”
“Willy Monteiro is a child who knows the meaning of friendship. Willy Monteiro is a child who does not remain indifferent to injustice”, is the thought of former footballer Claudio Marchisio. “It is not enough to want a better world, but you have to act to achieve it,” added the midfielder.
In a long letter, however, the singer Ermal Meta imagines Monteiro’s arrival in paradise: “you will probably take care of the children who disappeared at sea, those who have been perpetually invisible, those who, like you, were trying to cross. this dangerous world. ” “He wrote.” Misery is like weeds. If we don’t take care of it, it will eventually grow so large that it will pull the ceiling beams over our heads, burying us in our false security, “he concludes.” Take care Willy and have no fear. Where you are it is never dark and no one can turn off the streetlights. “