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Hili Trooper met one of the girls from the "Footballers and Minors" affair: "She is broken to pieces"

"The girl who hosted me today has not been leaving her home for weeks because of the shame and fear," "This is a scarred, humiliated girl who is afraid to go beyond the threshold of her home." After meeting with one of the girls, the Minister of Culture and Sports commented in a Facebook post on an affair that agitated Israeli football

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The Minister of Culture and Sports, Hili Trooper, met today (Friday) with one of the girls from the "Footballers and Minors" affair, and wrote about it in detail in a post he posted on his Facebook account.

"The girl from the 'footballers' affair' I met today is a smart, strong and charming girl but also broken to pieces. She has been carrying her slender back and slender shoulders for several weeks - accusations, lies, evil and scheming that even older people will find it difficult to bear.

I insist on standing by her side. There was someone near the actors who explained to me that they were all accusations in the story, I'm not confused for a moment, not because I'm in the position of investigator or judge, we'll leave that to the police to investigate, nor the status of a moral preacher.

I stand by them because there are girls here who are wildly attacked in the nets, absorbing terrible fire, insults and terrible slanders and are quite alone. They do not have thousands of fans who compose songs in their honor, attack for them and crowd around them with backing and sympathy. They only have the families, which of course are broken as well, a handful of friends and to my delight also a few public figures who insist on standing by them.

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The girl who hosted me today, has not left her home for weeks because of shame and fear. Her photos and name were circulated on the net, along with swear words and derogatory nicknames. By the way, everyone who passed on her name, address and picture also broke the law, but again I am not talking in the legal field at all, he just dismantled another piece of it. Anyone who insulted and violated her individual privacy a little more, peeled another layer from the heart of a 15-year-old girl, who drinks anyway. Just before you add more oil to the fire of hatred and evil, it's worth thinking about your child or your sister.

As usual, the problem is not only with the thousands of cursers, but with the masses of silences in the face of the brutality raging against two girls. Including the silence of the actors themselves.

I have no interest in quarreling with the players, nor in making them a target or a demon. But if they have already chosen to publish a post they have defined as an "apology post", I have a hard time coming to terms with the fact that they skipped the post about the girls. There was someone who explained to me that if they had apologized to them, it would have complicated them in the investigation - so at least you will call on your many fans to stop the dance of hatred towards the girls. The girl told me that by the time he calmed down a bit, after the publication of the "Apology Post", a huge wave of curses and insults against them began again. Isn't it true that the actors, regardless of what happened to them at the event itself, will at least help stop this murky wave?

I do want to hope that strong figures, players, team leaders and just people who think sports and respectful treatment of women can go together, will clearly stand up against the ugly Sheaming campaign.

For the girls this journey is no less difficult than the case itself. I have hope that when girls are harmed, confronting all of them will be unequivocal, without apologetics, without calculations of legal benefit and also without fear of angry and derogatory reactions from a group of fans, even if they are quite a few and quite noisy.

The band "Monica Sex" once sang:
"The dry law never gets wet,
not even from a girl's

tears " and when I sat today with this lovely and injured girl, and her tears flowed, I thought it really mattered less what the dry law would say and what the prosecution would decide. Right now there is a scarred, humiliated girl here who is afraid to go beyond her doorstep, who understands that every city she lives in and all the school students in the city know who it is and have read all the most insulting degrees, that every slime word written about her drops her to the boards again, and she feels alone.

She needs us there, so that we can stand up for her in the face of the waves of filth that continue to be sent to her on WhatsApp, Instagram, talkbacks and sometimes even in the established media. And then, so that we can remind her that she is good, that she has hope and that she is not alone. "