This week, a group of Italian teenage girls was riding home on a train in Northern Italy after spending a day at Lake Garda. Unfortunately, some 100 young thugs, tentatively identified as North Africans, were also on the train after a day of apparent brawling on Lake Garda. When the girls tried to walk through a train car looking for a ticket controller, they were not allowed to pass by the thugs because "they were white" and were subjected to prolonged sexual harassment.
The below article from Il Giornale is translated by Fousesquawk.
"The white women don't go up here." Shocking harassment* by North Africans on train
4 June 2022
6 girls were harassed on board a train that was taking them back to Milan after having spent a day at an amusement park
Valentina Dardari
A day that was supposed to be dedicated to pure fun was transformed instead into a nightmare for 6 girls who were returning by train from Gardaland. The young people, 4 residing in Milan and 2 in Pavia, all were between the ages of 16-17 and were on board regional train 2640 which was supposed to take them from Peschiera del Garda, in the province of Verona, to Milan after having spent a day at the amusement park. As reported by Il Giornale.it, the girls were reportedly sexually harassed at length in a serious manner by a herd of some 100 North Africans.
"The white women don't go up here"
The victims stated: "We were surrounded. The heat was suffocating, (and) some of us fainted. While we were looking for a controller, passing through the cars with difficulty," the sexual harassment happened. They then recalled that their attackers laughed while telling them: "The white women don't go up here". The incident happened in the late afternoon of last Thursday, June 2. The adolescents maintained that shortly after 6 pm, they were at the Peschiera train station, where the benches and platforms were invaded "by more than 100 boys and also some girls, the majority North Africans of our age or a little older. They were shouting and running. They also spit at the windows of a train that arrived before ours."
According to the mayor of Castelnuovo del Garda, Giovanni Dal Cero, it was probably those young men who took part in the crowd that, during the day, had poured onto the Peschiera shore and had participated in a large brawl at Lake Garda that had been organized on social media, during which, some stabbings and some acts of vandalism occurred. A video posted on TikTok, in fact, advertised a sort of rally for June 2. The direct train to Milan was packed with passengers. It appears that the victims of the sexual harassment did not alert the police for fear of being beaten, but however, decided to call their parents, who called 112, "but nobody intervened", the mothers and fathers reported. Coming to the rescue of the victims was a boy who helped them get off at the next stop, Desenzano. Yesterday all of them filed reports with the Railway Police at the Milan Central Station.
The appeal of the governor of Veneto
Luca Zaia, governor of the Veneto region, has commented on what occurred. "We continue our daily battle for not only individual liberty but social liberty. It is unthinkable that our girls are molested, harassed, or that they are objects of aggression on our territory. My call is for zero tolerance and that the police exert the maximum effort to find those responsible". The president then stressed that the population of Veneto is accustomed to (having) social relations based on respect for people and the rules. "The idea that incidents like these can become ordinary, or even worse, we can become used to them is unacceptable. We have never even become accustomed to putting alarms in our houses or thinking of locking ourselves inside. I repeat, zero tolerance," he pointed out.
*The article does not indicate whether the sexual harassment was physical or just verbal. The Italian word used (molestare) is most accurately translated as to harass.
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