Lebanon: celebrated the 25th anniversary of the death of s.ten Andrea Millevoi

(To Greater Defense)
02/07/18

The Italian Contingent in Lebanon deployed in the Shama base celebrated the XNUMXth anniversary of the death of the second lieutenant Gold Medal for Military Valor Andrea Millevoi, who fell in Mogadishu as part of the UN humanitarian operation UNOSOM II ("Ibis" in the denomination Italian) by a sniper belonging to the Somali militiamen. The base, home of the UNIFIL Sector West, is in fact dedicated and entitled to the Gold Medal.

Foreign colleagues also took part in the ceremony, which was particularly felt.

General Paolo Fabbri, commander of Sector West of UNIFIL, after the Raising of the Flag paid the honors to the fallen and placed a laurel wreath in front of the plaque made in memory of second lieutenant Millevoi. The block was made by the soldiers of the mechanized brigade "Granatieri di Sardegna", to which the young officer belonged in 1993, since he was effective in the "Lancers of Montebello" regiment (8th).

Millevoi was the third Italian fallen in what is remembered as the "battle of the pasta factory", in which the paratrooper Pasquale Baccaro and the sergeant major Stefano Paolicchi also lost their lives.

"Commander of heavy armored platoon "CENTAURO", part of the Italian contingent sent to Somalia as part of the humanitarian operation commissioned by the United Nations "- reads the motivation of the Gold Medal for Military Valor -" he participated with the 183rd Parachute Regiment " NEMBO "at the roundup of a neighborhood in Mogadishu. During the following battles, treacherously provoked by Somali militiamen, with skill and intelligence he competed with the forces employed by him to uncouple some wagons trapped in the town. After having escorted a vehicle used for the evacuation of some wounded soldiers, he returned to the combat area and regardless of the incessant enemy fire he coordinated the action of his men and personally contrasted the enemy attack with the light armament on board. To make his firing action more effective, he leaned his entire torso out of the middle, exposing himself to the shot of a sniper who hit him fatally. He fell with arms in hand, offering a clear example of courage, determination, absolute contempt for danger and a very high sense of duty sublimated by the supreme sacrifice. Mogadishu, July 2, 1993."