Milan, 1 September (LaPresse) – “A 13-year-old girl leaves home to buy a snack for her brothers. She goes into a convenience shop. She comes out devastated. A man is arrested within a few hours on suspicion of being responsible for that assault. The prosecutor requests a prison sentence. Two nights. Then he’s out. The judge’s reasoning is: he had no previous convictions, he cooperated with the authorities, and he said he was sorry. Sorry. We talk, quite rightly, a great deal about security. We hold the Government to account, quite rightly, for what is going wrong. But here, we must ask the question to its very core. We have drafted the laws, and they are stricter than ever. The police did their duty, within a few hours, and did it very well. The Public Prosecutor’s Office sought the harshest possible measure. The whole system worked. And then a ruling comes along that breaks it in forty-eight hours, and we can do nothing but send inspectors from the Ministry, which is what we are doing.” The Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, wrote this on Facebook regarding the case in Turin. “Who is going to explain this to that family? Who is going to explain this to that neighbourhood, which knows that tonight that man is back there? We will carry on. Regulations, personnel, resources. Right to the end. But this really does make it difficult. My complete solidarity goes out to the young woman and her family,” Meloni concluded.
Turin: Meloni on the abused 13-year-old: “Released from prison? Who’s going to explain that to the family?”
Milan, 1 September (LaPresse) – “A 13-year-old girl leaves home to buy a snack for her brothers. She goes into a convenience shop. She comes out devastated. A man is arrested within a few hours on suspicion of being responsible for that assault. The prosecutor requests a prison sentence. Two nights. Then he’s out. The judge’s reasoning is: he had no previous convictions, he cooperated with the authorities, and he said he was sorry. Sorry. We talk, quite rightly, a great deal about security. We hold the Government to account, quite rightly, for what is going wrong. But here, we must ask the question to its very core. We have drafted the laws, and they are stricter than ever. The police did their duty, within a few hours, and did it very well. The Public Prosecutor’s Office sought the harshest possible measure. The whole system worked. And then a ruling comes along that breaks it in forty-eight hours, and we can do nothing but send inspectors from the Ministry, which is what we are doing.” The Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, wrote this on Facebook regarding the case in Turin. “Who is going to explain this to that family? Who is going to explain this to that neighbourhood, which knows that tonight that man is back there? We will carry on. Regulations, personnel, resources. Right to the end. But this really does make it difficult. My complete solidarity goes out to the young woman and her family,” Meloni concluded.