This morning, the major national newspapers carried the news of sexual abuse by a young woman in a barracks on the outskirts of Rome. Retained after an arrest for theft, the night between 23 and 24 February she was raped by a policeman and a local policeman while two other policemen looked on. The four men are now investigated for sexual assault, but the rhetoric has already unleashed autoassolutorie.
Words, as always, are indicative. The mayor of Rome said he was "appalled" (!?) And reassures everyone by saying that "any bad apples can not undermine the confidence that the Romans against the police." The latter, meanwhile, said they were "embarrassed" (!?) And guarantee sula to clarify the situation.
The situation in fact is very clear. We know the gender-based violence, even if protected by fierce radically asymmetrical power relations, as in the case of a woman locked up and abused by three men defended their currencies and the walls of a barracks. Walls and divided not only protect them while committing the violence, but trying to shield them from liability. Walls and uniforms that allow them to pursue a defensive line that is not unbearable pains to deny the "sexual relations", but describes them as "consenting". The woman in fact - according to the four men - would show his acquiescence.
The victim becomes a charge: the machinery of justice, for clarity, will have to verify if indeed the woman was consenting or not. But if a woman goes into hospital, shocked a rape complaint, there is perhaps a doubt about which was his will? And yet it was subjected to interrogations, alone against four men ready to support each of them. Will be forced to prove / justify its NO. Every gesture used against her, his every word doubted. His voice cleared, his will annihilated again.
We will do everything possible so that voice is not stifled. No one will convince us with the logic of "bad apples" because we know what these are recurrent episodes of violence. Nobody annebbierà with the rhetoric of the investigation because we know how certain power relations are repeated in legal practice. No one will comfort us under the pretext of the exception because we know that violence against women is never an isolated event news, but a social product.
Laboratory Looks sui generis
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