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Do you know Benito Mussolini?
Do you know that he would burn you all?"
Phrases like these, accompanied by the launch of firecrackers and even a dead pigeon, were addressed to a group of young and very young LGBTs, between 12 and 19 years old, on Sunday afternoon in the center of Ferrara.
A homophobic aggression by a group of young people between 17 and 25 years old, taken up among other things by the mobile phone of a victim who posted it on social media as a complaint, making it go viral.
The local press reports today.
The boys targeted by the attack
they were sitting chatting, the mother of one of them at Nuova Ferrara said: "My daughter just had a 'rainbow' handbag", rainbow. "They know some of the young people who attacked them - he adds - on other occasions there were jokes, allusions, but nothing similar to what happened the other night". The family, the woman underlines, has contacted Arcigay Ferrara who has made herself available for any legal support, given that there is the intention to "present a formal complaint". "I hope other parents choose to join me too," he told the Resto del Carlino. The boys were reportedly targeted by homophobic insults, with references to Mussolini, and by firecrackers. Shaken,they immediately called 112 and the patrol removed the attackers and advised them to file a complaint.
The conviction of the mayor of Ferrara Alan Fabbri (Lega) has stopped
. "A cowardly, petty, intolerable act: the images of the aggression suffered by a group of children hurt. And they must induce a response from everyone: an open, free, civilized, welcoming city like Ferrara cannot accept scenes from this guy". The video, reads the mayor's statement, is at the center of an
exhibit at Digos
.
"The condemnation and absolute indignation in seeing those sequences is firm - says the mayor - I express full solidarity with the young people who have been attacked, with their families. I am ready to meet them and show them, in person, my closeness. I hope that the facts are cleared up quickly, that those responsible are quickly identified and severely punished. I also hope that the first response will come from the families of the young perpetrators of these intolerable gestures. Those phrases praising the leader, the violent words, the homophobic insults, the discriminatory phrases pronounced are aberrant and require, in addition to due condemnations and punishments, a strong educational response and an injection of culture. These too are antibodies against incivility and violence ".