When you see these kinds of headlines, is it any wonder that customers are turning away from the mainstream media in droves? Apparently, the worst thing about gang rape is not the actual gang rape, but rather the possibility that political movements that the mainstream media doesn’t care for might gain ground because of it.
Last month’s alleged gang rape in Catania has become not only a symbol of violence against women in the country, but a cause célèbre for Italy’s far-right government. The seven suspected perpetrators were all Egyptian migrants, three of them under the age of 18, Catania police confirmed to CNN.
Yet in the latest case, officials have centered their attention on the background of the alleged perpetrators.
As if the background of a rapist would be an irrelevant consideration.
The judge investigating the most recent case, Carlo Umberto Cannella, said the suspects were likely to reoffend because they were not “accustomed to civilization.”