The Death Of Willy Monteiro Duarte

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On the night of September 6, 2020, a 21-year-old man named Willy Monteiro Duarte was killed in the Italian town of Colleferro. Willy had not gone looking for a fight. According to the reconstruction that emerged during the investigation and subsequent trials, he had intervened during an altercation involving other young people. Within minutes, the situation escalated. What followed would become one of the most closely followed criminal cases in modern Italy. Four men were prosecuted. The investigation led to arrests, a highly publicized trial, multiple appeals and, eventually, convictions for voluntary homicide. This episode follows the case from the events of that night through the investigation and the long judicial process that followed. But this is not a story about sensationalism. It is a story about a young man whose life ended in a matter of minutes, the people who tried to help him, the investigators who reconstructed what happened,