The master’s degree in mechanical engineering for energy and the environment from the University of Naples Federico II was delivered yesterday to the family of Fulvio Filace, the student who died in June in an experimental car fire along with Maria Vittoria Prati, a researcher at the CNR's Stems Institute. The ceremony was held in a classroom full of students, amid widespread emotion. His mother, Maria Rosaria Corsaro, remembers him: "Today, Fulvio would have been the happiest person in the world since the first of his ambitions would have come true: graduation and then a working career. He would have been proud of himself, and he would certainly have appreciated his family for their unwavering support and encouragement". And she went on to say, "I absolutely think that even if a person is no longer with us, the positive things he left us cannot cease here. In any case, his ideas, conscience, and intelligence live on in each of us, in all those who loved and admired him£. A tragedy that the young student's mother cannot accept, pleading for justice and more information on how it might have happened: "We are looking for justice since something clearly did not work. What's surprising is that they were in a test car on a ring road, not with experienced drivers and fireproof clothes. Sent into the fray. With ludicrous tests that, in my opinion, should be performed in a laboratory or on a track." Matteo Lorito, the rector of Federico II University, who handed over the parchment to the family, also told them that the University will be a civil party in the trial and will remain close to the family in order to shed light on the situation.
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