TV journalist Andrea Giambruno has been criticized after he referred to the recent gang rapes of underage girls. “If you avoid getting drunk and passing out, maybe you can avoid getting into trouble,” said Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s partner.
“If you go dancing, you have every right to get drunk, but if you avoid getting drunk and passing out, you may also avoid getting into trouble,” TV journalist Andrea Giambruno, a partner of the prime minister, told Rete 4 on Monday evening. Italian Giorgia Meloni.
Giambruno, during a conversation with the editor of the “Libero” newspaper, Pietro Senaldi, referred to the recent gang rapes of underage girls throughout Italy. Both expressed condemnation of the rapists, whom they called “wolves”.
Meloni’s partner criticized for words to young women
However, the two men’s comments about women getting drunk drew heavy criticism on social media and from politicians.
– They can’t help but blame women. Women and their lifestyles are always judged. I say to Giambruno that boys need to be taught respect, not girls to distrust – commented on their conversation in the Tuesday newspaper “Corriere della sera” Senator of the Democratic Party Cecilia D’Elia, vice-chairman of the commission of inquiry on violence against women.
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Chiara Braga, leader of the Democratic Party group in the Chamber of Deputies, called on Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to “distance herself from these words”.
Meloni reacts to the rape of 13-year-olds
Giorgia Meloni announced that on Friday she would go to Caivano near Naples, where a gang of teenagers raped two 13-year-old cousins. The prime minister accepted the invitation of the popular priest Maurizio Patricelli, the parish priest of the local parish. The priest asked Meloni to see with her own eyes what it was like to live in a run-down block of flats where a rape had taken place in the neglected “Parco Verde”.
“Madam Prime Minister, we are in your hands: take us out of this hell,” the mother of one of the raped girls wrote in a letter to Meloni. “We are waiting for you to show you the horrors and degradation of such suburbs. Here there is not only crime, drugs and Camorra, which are often an alibi for a world of politics unable to solve problems, but also pedophilia, violence and prostitution,” she added.
Alessandro Zan of the Democratic Party hoped that before leaving for Caivano, “Meloni will give a speech explaining to his partner Giambruno that blaming the victims of violence, especially on live TV, is a barbaric and perverse practice based on the worst masculine and patriarchal stereotypes.”
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