The published ‘still photo’ of a security camera already gives an idea of ​​the violence What followed: young men — the oldest, 22; the youngest, about to turn 18—carrying to drag still lonely place to a girl Seven against one. One with diminished defenses, moreover, since they had met her with a plan layout… which began with get her drunk well drunk

“A little disgusting… we were like a hundred dogs on a cat”

This is how the detainees left it in writing in the group chat. Which also throws up sordid details of that night in July in which, they admit, they acted like animals: “He made me a little disgusted, to be honest, because we were like a hundred dogs on a cat; but what can you do, meat is meat”, wrote one of them. Not satisfied with his turn, the leader of this “pack” – who apparently already knew the victim, harassed her and had already tried to rape her — He recorded the group rape with his cell phone, which was very violent, according to the investigators.

‘I was screaming’enough, enough, enough!‘ and they yelled at me ‘come on, what do you like'”, she declared. In one more sadistic detail, later they left her lying tearfully…refusing to call an ambulance until the victim barely managed to call her boyfriend. She points out that in her glasses there would be something more than alcohol: “I couldn’t say anything other than where I was and that I needed an ambulance. So I collapse with the mobile in hand, very sleepy…”, reflects the police report.

“Solidarity with the umpteenth victim of a patriarchal and macho system”

While the streets of Palermo were shouting “not one more!” in solidarity feminist demonstrationsthis ‘herd’ tried delete evidence —even burying some of their cell phones— but they forwarded the messages so much that they carabinieri It didn’t take them long to find them.

“Behind that rape there are not only those boys, there is a whole system based on the toxic masculinityin the oppression as practice normalized”, point out Italian activists. So so that the self-confessed “dogs” rapists they reacted badly when the victim did what they should, report: “I swear, tonight I’m going to look for her on the street and I’ll blow her nose with a headbutt,” one of them messaged.

Today three of the seven members of this pack/pack try to defend themselves again before the judge. And the controversy has jumped into politics, even the far-right Salvini has taken the opportunity to bring out one of his classics: the chemical castration. It is seen that to achieve political gain, there is sexist violence, which they normally deny.