“By leaving them free, we leave them free to be beaten by their husbands and to pickpocket us. We lose twice, us and them.” Pietro Senaldiguest of Paolo Del Debbio to Forehand and backhand on Rete 4, comments on the story of the Roma pickpockets and his words are greeted with applause from the studio.
The debate lights up with the intervention of Nadacultural mediator, who, regarding the video of the beating of a pickpocket in the Rome subway which went viral last week, ventures: “In my opinion it’s not fair, she doesn’t know if she was beaten because they sent someone or because she was a feudmaybe there was a feud between the families.”
“In any case, I don’t think she really wanted to be beaten”, replies Libero’s co-director ironically. Del Debbio intervenes: “A feud between who? Between who and who?”. “Between them, between these two…”, Nada tries to answer. Senaldi and Del Debbio are astonished: “And so we leave it there”, “I feel worse“.
“I’m not saying this – continues the cultural mediator – maybe it’s not her protector who sent her to beat up but two families…”. “That is, you say – Senaldi replies again -: maybe it wasn’t her husband who hit her but her uncle and then it’s okay?”. “It’s not okay, it’s not right to go stealing on the subway.” At least on this point, everyone agrees.
