(ANSA) – BARI, 04 JUL – “A couple of young girls were violently attacked last night in Bari with homophobic and transphobic insults, by their peers in the Rossani Park, until they were sent to hospital”. The complaint is published on the facebook page of Bari Pride which was held last Saturday in Bari with a procession involving ten thousand people. The post also published the photo showing the dressing on the head of the young man who, according to the complaint, was attacked inside the Rossani park.
“We cannot remain silent in the face of the prevaricating violence that is spreading in our city – it is written in the post – with a clear patriarchal, homophobic and racist matrix: we express all our solidarity with the assaulted boy. Similar episodes at the Rossani park have occurred to boys foreigners, and many other reports of harassment on the street against girls that we have counted in these days.
Facts that see packs of equally young boys as aggressors, raising questions regarding a real educational emergency “. The post also denounces other episodes of verbal and non-verbal aggression that would have occurred following the Pride parade last Saturday.” First against an activist, who had a flag broken by an openly fascist subject – it is written – then a verbal rage against a trans girl, whom the police have had difficulty managing using inappropriate language “.
“In our city – it is said – there is no room for violence: as social organizations from Bari, while recognizing that some areas today need greater protection, we believe that the response to these episodes cannot be just of a type security, with the deployment of police forces on the streets. We believe, indeed, that even for the police it is necessary to carry out increasingly widespread training opportunities on what are real hate crimes against people LGBTQIA + (and which in the courts cannot even be recognized as such), since in many of these cases they prove unprepared to support the victims “. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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