Willy’s funeral, hundreds at the ceremony. Conte’s hug to his parents: “Italy is with you.” Bishop: “Barbara killing, I do not forget”

There is also that of the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, Between white sweaters and shirts that hundreds showed up at the Paliano sports field, in the province of Frosinone, for the funeral of Willy Monteiro Duarte, the 21-year-old killed Colleferro. Shortly after the ceremony, the prime minister approached his parents and sister and hugged them: “Italy is with you, it loves you,” he said later. With him, also present at the funeral, the secretary of the Democratic Party and governor of Lazio, Nicola Zingaretti, and the Minister of the Interior, Luciana Lamorgese. “Now we wait severe and certain sentences – declared the Prime Minister – We have all followed this story of brutal violence. We cannot minimize or underestimate it. We can’t downgrade it to a single episode. We have to look at ourselves and understand that there are margins, social pockets that cultivate the mythology of violence“While Dem announced that” the Region will pay and support the family for legal fees and one of the hotel establishments in our region will be dedicated to Willy’s name. ”

The Prime Minister then wanted to launch his personal appeal to politics and the community: “We must mobilize us all and at all levels, families, teachers, politicians, journalists for a common goal, which is to counteract this mythology of violence to the point of extinguishing it and remembering the values ​​and principles on which our civilization and our social life is based. The main principle is respect for the person, for their dignity ”. “As of Monday – concluded – resume school, this will be the school year of the health emergency but it should also be the school year of inclusion and combating bullying. All the mental energies that we are putting into all levels of health, let’s also focus on combating bullying against a language of hate and violence. Words are stones at all levels ”.

Family and friends all showed up with jerseys and white t-shirts, like most of the participants: an order that came directly from the young man’s family, as a “sample of purity and youth,” the mayor of Paliano had reported, a tradition that returns to connect with the Cape Verdean origins of the child, where white is also a color of mourning when young people lose their lives. A long applause then accompanied the entrance of the 21-year-old coffin.

“Let us also ask God for the strength to one day know how to forgive those who have achieved the irreparable. To forgive but also to ask that they follow a path of reeducation according to what justice wants to have and in places, such as prisons, which must increasingly be environments of authentic rehabilitation of the human, ”the Bishop of Tivoli and Palestrina began. Mgr Mauro Parmeggiani, during the homily. “Because the barbaric and unjust death in Willy does not fall into oblivion Let us all commit ourselves, the institutions, the forces of order, the men and women of politics, the school, sports and leisure, the Church, families and those who hold the keys to an enormous power, that of the media and in particular of digital media, commitment together, beyond any personal interest and without looking away pretending not to see, to reconnect a comprehensive educational pact“.

Before the arrival of Willy’s coffin, Prime Minister Conte held a dialogue with the mayors of Paliano, Colleferro and other neighboring municipalities to listen and comfort them, along with Zingaretti and Lamorgese. “My hope is that justice will soon be served and that everyone’s responsibilities will be clarified soon. My call to testify was heard and witnesses were added, ”said the mayor of Colleferro. Pierluigi sanna.

Shortly before the start of the G7 of Parliaments, the Speaker of the Chamber, Roberto fico, wanted to send his message to the family of the 21-year-old: “Soon the G7 Parliament organized by the United States – he wrote on Facebook – Before the works begin, however, I want to address a thought of great closeness to the Willy Monteiro family. I try bewilderment and bewilderment for what happened. We have a civil duty to transform these feelings into political and social action, violence is fought with culture, a necessary tool to influence erroneous models that are unfortunately still present in society ”.