09.51 – Tuesday 4 June 2024
“Are you still alive?”. “You fucking retard… you broke my….”. “Anorexic ass… Shut up for a bit”. “Still talking? Shut up. It is better if you die of cancer, you and your parents”. These are some of the dozens and dozens, hundreds of insults, threats and humiliations that over the years a 5th year student of a city technical institute, just a few weeks old, has had to suffer from a classmate of her own age, before finding the strength to come to the police station to report it.
These insults and threats, the very young victim specified in the complaint, have lasted for a long time, and are systematically addressed to her by her classmate in the most diverse circumstances. On several occasions, in fact, the latter made her the target of very heavy insults both in the presence of her other classmates and in the group chat on the “Whatsapp” platform.
The straw that broke the camel’s back, according to the girl, was what happened during the organization of the class dinner in view of the upcoming final exams. Here, on the group chat, while everyone intervened with their own proposal on how to spend the evening, the “persecutor” classmate began to target the victim by insulting her heavily and unmotivated, and then repeatedly telling her to keep quiet with vulgar epithets and humiliating. When, yesterday morning, in the presence of other classmates the subject began to wish her and her parents death, the young victim couldn’t stand it anymore and came to the police offices to report the tormentor.
At the end of the Judicial Police documents, attached to which all the screenshots were acquired as proof of the persecution to which she was subjected over time, the classmate of the very young victim was reported to the Public Prosecutor’s Office for the crimes of stalking and threats.
“Gender violence, persecutory acts and bullying, in addition to representing particularly hateful forms of crime as they are committed against victims who are often unable to defend themselves, represent a serious cultural problem – highlighted the Police Commissioner of the Province of Bolzano Paolo Sartori –. The State Police has always been at the forefront, even with specific projects, in encouraging a culture of gender equality, equality and respect for freedoms, with the aim of eliminating cultural legacies and discrimination, as well as with the objective to help women defend themselves, ask for help and report the violence they have suffered”.
