Rape Piacenza, victim recognized because of the video released online

The victim of sexual violence that took place on August 21, 2022 in Piacenza declared that have been publicly recognizedbecause of sharing on some publications (first of all The messengerwho later removed it) and sui social media of the video of the attack, which rose to the news also for being relaunched by Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy, to campaign. An investigation has been opened on the dissemination of the images by the chief prosecutor of Piacenza, Maria Grazia Pradella, and an investigation by the Privacy Guarantor. Meanwhile, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram removed Meloni’s postfor violation of the rules of the social network.

“I am desperate, I was recognized because of those images“, the victim told the Piacenza public prosecutor, Antonio Colonna, owner of the investigations into the violence that took place in the historic center of the Emilian city together with the prosecutor Pradella on Monday 22 August, as reported Agi. The prosecutor asked for the person responsible for the rape validation of the arrest and pre-trial detention in prisonwith the accusation of sexual violence aggravated by having acted in circumstances such as to hinder private defense and aggravated personal injury.

Even in the face of a rape, Giorgia Meloni’s propaganda does not stop

The leader of the Brothers of Italy relaunches the video of rape in Piacenza. Between the newspapers that published it and the electoral campaign of the party that exploits it, there is no longer a limit to the abuse of the pain of others

In addition to violence, the victim had to undergo unsolicited media exposure, which took place with little consideration of respect for the privacy of women, the social stigma that weighs on the victims of rape and the additional dangers that can derive from exposing the victims. Therefore the Public Prosecutor of Piacenza has also opened an investigation into the diffusion of the video of rape, shared on Meloni’s websites, newspapers and social media channels.

The crimes hypothesized by the investigators are the dissemination without consent of material reproducing sexual acts and the crime against whom “brings the victim’s identity or image to the attention of an indefinite number of peoplewithout your consent, through methods that in any case allow you to be able to trace the injured person “based on article 734 bis of the criminal code.

The Guarantor for the protection of personal data, starting an investigation “With reference to the dissemination of the video” sexual violence “for ascertain any liability on the part of the subjects who, for various reasons and for different purposes, have proceeded to do so“. The supervisor also warned “All data controllers to verify the existence of suitable legal bases legitimizing such dissemination”reserving the right to adopt any sanctioning measures within its competence.

Meanwhile, Twitter removed the post that reported the video from Meloni’s account of sexual violence, canceled because in violation of the rules of the social network. Facebook and Instagram also deleted it. While Katia Tarasconi, mayor of Piacenza, condemned the dissemination of the video pointing out how the victim has “Already suffered a violence” And “With this video I’m undergoing another”. “I put myself in the shoes of this woman thinking that today she would not want to open the internet and see what happened” concluded in a statement reported by Fanpage.