2023-07-13 02:41:01
It is a court decision that irritates the Boot. The release of a school guard who had fiddled with the buttocks of a 17-year-old student for ten seconds sparked a controversy in Italy on Thursday, arousing the indignation of student associations and influencers.
According to the Rome court, these touches having lasted “between five and ten seconds”, as denounced by the victim and recognized their author, “do not constitute an offense”. “He put his hands inside my pants and under my underwear, he groped my ass and then he lifted me up enough to hurt my private parts. This, at least for me, is not a joke,” the victim told the Italian daily. The Corriere della Sera. A gesture confirmed by a friend of the victim who attended the scene.
The “suddenness of the action, without any insistence in the action of touching”, which is “almost a touch”, does not make it possible to “characterize the libidinous or lustful intention generally required by criminal law”, a estimated the court, quoted speaks daily
The court therefore rejected the requisitions of the prosecution, who had requested three and a half years of imprisonment against the guard, aged 66, who had admitted to having touched the student while she was climbing stairs but assured to have done so ” jokingly “. He also admits to lifting her, but denies putting his hands in the teenager’s pants.
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“After this decision, if a girl is groped, she will end up thinking that it is not worth reporting violence. In my case, the complaint was presented by the school, which supported me. Complaints must be filed to obtain justice. Silence, in general, protects the aggressors, ”regrets the teenager.
This court decision sparked protests from the Association of Students in Lazio (the region encompassing Rome): “We are outraged by the reasoning behind the judgment (…) Once again, touching is not recognized as such , this time because of its duration”, protested its president Tullia Narciso, quoted by the daily Il Fatto quotidiano.
“We want to feel safe everywhere, and especially at school, which should teach to recognize and eliminate violence and discrimination,” she concluded. After this controversial judgment, many students posted on social networks of videos where they film themselves touching their bodies by simulating a touching for ten seconds, which seems to last an eternity.
This gesture of solidarity with the victim was also taken up by the Italian actor Paolo Camilli, known for his role in the series “The White Lotus” (HBO) and whose video was shared by the most famous influencer of the peninsula, Chiara Ferragni.
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