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Mattarella awards posthumous honour to fatal-beating victim Willy

Slain priest Roberto Malgesini awarded gold medal too

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 8 - President Sergio Mattarella has awarded one of Italy's top honours, the gold medal, posthumously to two people recently killed while trying to help others, 21-year-old Willy Duarte and 51-year-old priest Father Roberto Malgesini.
    Duarte was beaten to death at Colleferro, near Rome, last month after trying to defend a friend who was being attacked.
    Malgesini, who worked to help the poor and marginalised, was stabbed to death in central Como by a homeless migrant with mental-health problems. (ANSA).
   

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