03/13/2021 20:09
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 03/13/2021 8:18 PM
Belén Riva Roy, a young yoga teacher, released in the last hours a video with a dramatic testimony about an episode of sexual harassment she suffered in the forests of Palermo, when
two men approached her and made obscene comments
.
According to him, the incident occurred on Thursday, when the victim was in a "busy area, next to the avenue," where he had gone to
meditate
.
The young woman said that she first thought that the two men who approached her, one of whom was shirtless,
wanted to rob her
.
However, one of them took it upon himself to tell him that they had other intentions.
"My mind thought of giving them everything calmly. I see to give them the cell phone and the bicycle. When they approach me they express that they wanted to do to me the same thing that an actor does to an actress in a world-renowned film about
sexuality and sadomasochism
" , he remembered.
Then, through tears, Belén indicated that those words "which may seem little" represent a lot for a woman who is alone because
"one does not know if they are going to fulfill it or not
.
"
"At that moment I feel that the world stopped me and I really feel fear for the first time in my life. And the man passed me by behind and I feel his member passing behind me, through my head," he denounced.
Belén added that at that moment a man who was passing through the area with his car intervened.
"I'm sure they didn't do anything to me because that man got involved to help me," she
said.
"When the men leave, I am totally scared, totally perplexed, and another man came and said 'no, they didn't do anything to him.' Well, we come back to the same thing, what is doing something and what is doing nothing? yes, they did everything to me. Today the truth is fine, I was lucky, they didn't touch me, they didn't penetrate me, but they did screw up my day and
fill me with fear,
"he remarked.
Belén claimed that these situations should not occur because "women should be able to be in a square without these things happening and walk without these things happening."
"I suffered fear, I feel that
I never had the fear that I had today
. Nothing happened to me and I thank life but it was a really shitty situation because when a man tells you that he is going to do something sexual to you, you don't know if he is capable of to do it or not. Thank God they were not able to do it, but this should not happen, it should not happen anymore. In the forests of Palermo there is no security, "he said.
Police sources confirmed to
Clarín
that there is no formal complaint about the episode.
In addition, they affirmed that the area is monitored by security cameras and that it has a patrol system that is reinforced during peak hours.
LM
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