(ANSA) – ROME, FEBRUARY 21 – In a chef’s outfit and the words: “Chef Willy, I don’t serve food for violent people”. It is the work created by the well-known street artist Laika, donated to the municipality of Colleferro, and dedicated to the memory of Willy Monteiro Duarte, the young resident of Paliano, in the province of Frosinone, and killed in Colleferro, in the province of Rome, in September. 2020 after intervening in defense of a friend in danger.
This morning in the Angelo Vassallo gardens in Colleferro, where Willy’s murder took place on 6 September 2020, the delivery of the work took place in the presence of the artist, Eleonora Mattia (President IX Commission on Labor, training, youth policies, equal opportunities , education, right to study in the Regional Council) and the mayor of Colleferro Pierluigi Sanna.
“The delivery of the work – explained in a note Mattia, promoter of the initiatives in memory of Willy – marks a further stage of a journey in which as institutions, on every level, we have put seriousness and heart to honor the memory of the young man. brutally killed in September 2020. A story that left a wound in the whole local community and that we courageously tried to transform into an opportunity for redemption, especially for the young people of the area. This is where the Lazio Region commitments for the institution are born. of the Willy Monteiro Duarte Prize, aimed at high school students in Lazio, and the redevelopment project of the ‘Piazza Bianca’ near the place of the killing in Colleferro. Laika’s work, delivered today to the Mayor Pierluigi Sanna, brings us back to the young boy’s good smile and his passion for cooking “. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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