"Cocaine addicts must be avoided. The girl raped by Genovese naive": the title of Libero starts from the first page, Vittorio Feltri comments on the case of the entrepreneur who raped an 18 year old.
"As for poor Michela, I wonder: entering the guest room's bedroom, what did she think she was going to do, to recite the rosary?".
"It would have been better to stay away from him (...). Let's grant him generic extenuating circumstances, let's pull their ears to his parents", we read among other things.
On the eve of November 25, International Day against Violence against Women, which updates data on femicides, the editorial brings with it indignation and controversy.
Feltri's words are defined as "disgusting and disgusting" by the senator of the Democratic Party, Simona Malpezzi.
"This is gender violence, it is secondary victimization, it is sexism", adds the other senator of the Democratic Party, Valeria Valente.
"Disgusting to justify a rape. It is not freedom of the press but an offense to the whole of society", echoes Senator Laura Garavini, deputy group leader Italy Viva-Psi.
"It is deeply horrifying, its vulgar, miserable, sexist and violent pseudocomments, which vell the lowest instincts of the human soul, produce very serious damage", says the deputy Alessandro Amitrano (M5s), "would deserve a wave of indignation from a whole country ".
"Incommentable" words, writes the Minister of Agriculture Teresa Bellanova (Iv).
"The problem is not where a woman goes or how she is dressed. The problem is not the parents. The problem is the violent ones and those who defend them. The problem is those like Feltri", tweeted LeU deputy Rossella Muroni.
Feltri is no longer in the order of journalists but President Carlo Verna reiterated that "even if a journalist has left the Order, there are however a director in charge and ethical judges".
The young woman felt even more "stigmatized".
Nadia Somma, activist at the Demetra anti-violence center in Emilia Romagna, member of the national association DiRe - women in the network against violence, observes at ANSA: "there is a great social responsibility of the media in reporting violence. We must be clear: if there is no consent it is rape, always, whether at home, away from home, for a fee, with acquaintances or strangers - they are 3% -, period. All that is added with cynicism is a further unprecedented violence that goes to blame even more victims. When you write certain sentences, when you use a certain language you have to be aware of what it causes. To the people I follow with a painful and very long path I always recommend not to read the facts about femicides because their reaction it is to amplify the faults they do not have. So beware: what Feltri wrote is not an opinion but violence and is responsible for it ".
How to change an ancient legacy, so deeply rooted?
"You have to go from belly to head, instead of making your stomach gurgle letting out the worst feelings you have to be intelligent and increase empathy for the victims. It is the first big step and it's up to the media, the journalists to take it".
Feltri manages "to suck more and more, he surpasses himself", comments to ANSA Michela Murgia, who among other things seven years ago with Loredana Lipperini had written "I killed her because I loved her" False!
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"Feltri's phrases are a consequence of the patriarchal and macho society: the woman is guilty of something, of how she dresses, of whom she meets, etc. therefore the male acts accordingly, that of the perpetrator of violence is a reaction not an action .
The world of information has a huge responsibility, to really change things we need to be clear: this is yes, this is not.
The new protocol just approved at the Fnsi is a step forward ".
The article" was perfect "Feltri declared in the evening," I do not condone the rape. I said she was a naive, not a prostitute.
Naive is not an offense.
I did not say that she went to look for it, I said that she was naive to accept the invitation of this subject who had such parties - continues Feltri at ANSA.
Don't make me say things that I haven't written and don't think about.
I do not want to give a negative image of anyone, I say that this girl could not fail to know what is happening in that house, a minimum of prudence had to adopt it ". And to those who ask for the intervention of the Order, Feltri replies:" I am discharged from the Order, I cannot stay in a cage.
I don't give a damn about journalists, I despise them and if someone calls me a journalist I'll sue them for defamation.
I write what I want, and if the editor doesn't like it, just don't publish it.
I have no pretensions. "