Italy’s summer of horrific crimes is told in a long article by New York Times, in which it is underlined that the latest feminicides and gang rapes have “reopened the debate on the most degraded areas of the country and on its chauvinistic attitudes towards women as well as on the risk that social media will amplify them”.
The newspaper mentions gang violence in Caivano and Palermo but also “the cases of women stabbed, shot or poisoned by their partners or by known people”. The New York Times he also recalls the visit of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to Caivano. “The first woman and first leader of the far right to lead Italy, she neglected the issue of women’s rights and instead focused on ‘law and order’, defining crimes as barbaric,” reads the article citing toAlso the controversial comments of the premier’s companion Andrea Giambruno.
«According to a recent report by Istat, the idea is still widespread in Italy that women victims of abuse are somehow guilty of having provoked the aggression. An attitude that is found in the comments of the partner and father of the daughter of the premier », we read. The idea that a woman’s behavior or clothing can trigger violence also permeates the Italian courts where – writes the New York Times – sexuality and sexual violence are often not distinct.
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