Investigators are looking into
the case of a seventeen-year-old girl whose rape was filmed by
her friends in a nightclub bathroom on a cell phone and are
seeking to identify the rapist.
The video was later circulated via WhatsApp to an unknown
number of individuals. Once the Rimini resident girl saw the
video, she told her mother and the mother reported the matter to
the Carabinieri, who are said to have blocked it from being
circulated further.
The girl told investigators that she remembered very little
about the night as she was very drunk at the time, but it seems
she was dragged to the bathroom by a boy of Albanian origins,
who proceeded to rape her as her female friends filmed the
incident on a cell phone, standing on a toilet in the adjacent
stall to do so. The girls can be heard laughing in the video.
Democratic Party (PD) senator Stefania Pezzopane noted that
the case "demonstrates once again that sexual violence against
women is a deeply rooted cultural phenomenon."
"Not only did a boy see a drunk, underage girl only as prey
to overpower, but her friends - witnesses to a crime - instead
of seeking help decided to become accomplices," the senator
said. "The feeling is that the youth of the 'social network
generation' find it difficult to distinguish between reality and
virtual reality. "
Pezzopane called for greater attention to prevention,
adding that "we must realize that a different culture would have
prevented the young rapist from committing the crime and her
friends from filming rape as if it were a game."
Northern League secretary Matteo Salvini commented by
saying that "the unbelievable thing is that the rape was filmed
with a cell phone and the video put on WhatsApp by a group of
the girls' friends. What is going through these people's heads,
and hearts?"
The head of the Rimini branch of the LGBT rights
association Arcigay 'Alan Turing' Rimini, Marco Tonti, said that
the incident was once again proof that Italian culture and
education are "imbued with criminal sexism practiced - in this
case - by women themselves".
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