Sanremo: Rula to women, we must no longer be afraid

(ANSA) - SANREMO, FEBRUARY 05 - "We must no longer be afraid, we want women to be free in space and time, to be silent and to noise and music". The scream of Rula Jebreal against laviole nza on women has the calm and very harsh tone together with the denunciation, of the story of the drama of the mother suicide before the rape, of the songs written by men, Battiato, Vasco Rossi and Francesco De Gregori who demonstrate that "it is possible to find the right words to tell affection, respect and care ".
Rula Jebreal's monologue, which is a punch in the stomach, begins with the most frequently asked questions to women victims of violence in courtrooms ("Did you have underwear that evening?", "Find men in jeans sexy") to give up " a bitter, cruel truth: we women are never innocent, because we denounced too late or too early, p because we are too beautiful or too ugly, in short, we want to hide it ". It is touching the memory of her experience as a child, in an orphanage, "where I grew up - says the journalist and writer born in Haifa in Israel to a father with Nigerian and Arab Palestinian ancestry and a Palestinian mother - with hundreds of girls and every evening we receded sad tales, not tales of mothers who reconcile the dream, tales of unfortunate girls, because our mothers have often been raped or killed or tortured ". The numbers paint a ruthless reality: "in the last three years 3 million 150 thousand women have been victims of sexual violence in the workplace, in the last two years 88 women a day have suffered abuse and violence, one every 15 minutes, one woman is killed every three days, six women were killed only last week. And in 80% of cases the executioner does not need to knock, he has the house keys. " (HANDLE).