Two brothers got life in prison Monday
for kicking to death a 21-year-old Cape-Verdian-Italian chef
near Rome in September 2020.
Twenty-something mixed martial art experts Marco and Gabriele
Bianchi were found guilty of the savage beating of Willy
Monteiro Duarte at Colleferro after he intervened to try to stop
a fight.
Duarte, who became a symbol of the youth street violence
sweeping Italy, was beaten to death on September 6, 2020
after stepping in to defend a friend.
In October 2020 President Sergio Mattarella awarded one of
Italy's top honours, the gold medal, posthumously to Duarte and
another person also recently killed while trying to help others,
51-year-old priest Father Roberto Malgesini.
Malgesini, who worked to help the poor and marginalised, was
stabbed to death in central Como by a homeless migrant with
mental-health problems.
Duarte's brutal murder sparked calls for police to crack down on
youth street violence, after a spate of other episodes.
Among the responses was the 'Willy DASPOban', which carries
penalties of stiff fines and jail terms between six months and
two years.
Youth street fights are becoming more common in Italy.
The Italian media has increasingly focused on street gangs
linked to rappers, some of them second-generation North African
immigrants.
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