Technological innovation and new devices as potential allies of the State against gender violence.
Encouraging signs come from some episodes in which the protagonists avoided the worst thanks to anti-violence devices.
"At the beginning of January I went to visit a friend in Milan", says Valentina (not her real name), a 17-year-old originally from Brescia.
On the way back, the unpleasant episode "towards the evening my friend accompanied me to the station to catch the return train", she continues, "at a certain point four girls entered the carriage laughing and shouting [...] then they played some music and they started dancing."
In a flash, the other passengers exit the carriage, Valentina finds herself alone and "one of the girls approaches her and starts complimenting me and touching my hair" while, shortly after, another molests her.
A passenger enters the carriage and Valentina takes the opportunity to activate the device she was carrying, activating the siren which quickly allows her to reach safety: "I got off at the first stop, luckily my parents came to pick me up there because they had seen the geolocalized SOS messages sent to emergency contacts by WinLet".
An episode that adds to a similar one that occurred last December in the Milan area, where a student escaped potential gang violence thanks to the same anti-aggression accessory.
This was stated by Pier Carlo Montali, creator of the WinLet device who at the end of January was heard at a hearing in the parliamentary commission of inquiry into feminicide.
For further information Agenzia ANSA Video calling services and "purple points" in the city, women alone on the streets are safer - Violence against women - Ansa.it From the reality created by DonnexStrada to the Mai Sole project by Forza Italia (ANSA)
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