The police officer Marco Marras and his assistant Loris Tola , who in September 2021, in Assemini, saved a man who had tried to set himself on fire , awarded in Florence with the Scudo di San Martino , merit awarded every year by the institute of the same name to people and organizations that have distinguished themselves for acts of generosity and solidarity.
Like the one - in fact - which had Marras ( who was seriously burned on 40% of his body) and Tola as protagonists.
A courageous act, theirs, which unfortunately did not prevent the death of the man who had carried out the crazy act, who died after hospitalization.
The award ceremony - now in its 39th edition - took place in Palazzo Vecchio.
A Silver Scudo also went to the memory of Bruno Padovani , the 82-year-old from Nogara (Verona) who died on a beach in the Ravenna area last June 27 to save a child who was drowning with three of his peers.
(Unioneonline/lf)
