Not In My Name

Not in My Name!
By Gabriele Zamparini


Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi honoured Fabrizio Quattrocchi, the contractor kidnapped and killed in Iraq on 14 April 2004, with a golden medal for civic value to his memory (Medaglia d’Oro al Valor Civile alla Memoria).

According to the Italian Law, the Medaglia d’Oro al Valor Civile is the highest honor ‘to reward acts of exceptional courage showing distinguished civic virtue and to point out the authors as worthy of public honors’ [Law 2 gennaio 1958, n. 13]

This act represents another shame for Italy and the Italian people. As an Italian citizen I say NOT IN MY NAME!