Violent attack on a young gay couple in the Rome metro: Watch the video
March 21, 2021
9:56 PM
All Italian political forces unequivocally condemned, without hesitation, violent attack against young gay couple in her subway Rome.
The attack is the main news in the country’s media.
According to Rai Public Television, two young people (an Italian LGBT activist and a political refugee from Central America) while waiting for the train, at the dock of the “Aurelio” station, in the subway of the Eternal City, were caught by the hand and they wanted to kiss.
From the opposite dock, an unknown person first propped them up and immediately jumped on the rails, reached them and started handcuffing the couple. A friend of the two young men took the scene with a mobile phone and uploaded it on social media.
HOMOPHOBIA, GAYNET ROME: OUR MEMBER ATTACKED IN AURELIA STATION, DIFFICULT TO REPORT HOMOPHOBIC MOVEMENT WITHOUT A LAW http://www.gaynews.it/2021/03/20/roma-picchiato-attivista-jean-pierre-moreno-si-stava- kissing-with-companion-in-station / We denounce with dismay the attack suffered by Jean Pierre Moreno, refugee and member of the association, at the Valle Aurelia train station in Rome, which we are following thanks to the legal support of Rete Lenford. The events took place last February 26 around 21:00 and have only now been disclosed to facilitate the legal process. One person saw Jean Pierre kissing with his companion while he was waiting for the train, he crossed two platforms from one platform to the other and presented himself in front of the two saying “you are not ashamed” ?. Kicks, punches and beatings followed, almost miraculously without serious physical consequences, despite the violence with which the subject was thrown, as can be seen in the video shot by a friend of the couple who was with them. Jean Pierre’s partner was also marginally hit and filed a complaint. Unfortunately, the process with the police was not easy. The police struggled to understand the homophobic motive and an integration of the complaint was needed to put on paper the request to retrieve the videos of the security cameras, which would prove the dynamics of the facts. We currently don’t know yet if the images will be recovered, as they are destroyed every 7 days and these steps have resulted in a significant waste of time. We now await the pronouncement of the prosecutor on what happened, hoping that everything possible will be done to identify the aggressor and to classify this crime in the best possible way according to the current legal instruments. The Zan law, pending definitive approval in the Senate, would certainly have required the authorities to immediately ascertain the possible motive for the facts on the basis of homotransphobic hatred. When it happened, it is unfortunately now part of an intolerable everyday life in a European country that claims to look at the Europeanism of the EU institutions but finds itself in fact a chronicle worthy of the repression we see in Poland. The final approval of the law is therefore a first and effective response to Italy’s enormous delay in terms of civil rights of LGBTI people. Rosario Coco Gaynet Roma contact person
Posted by Gaynet Roma on Saturday, March 20, 2021
Italian police now have the video in their hands and are trying to locate the perpetrator. The mayor of Rome, Virginia Raji, and the governor of Lazio (the wider region of the Italian capital), Nicola Gingaretti, immediately expressed their full support for the couple, adding that discrimination and violence must end once and for all.
From the center-right, at the same time, Forza Italia and Lega describe the images of the attack as “inconceivable”, while the super-conservative party Adelfia of Italy makes it known that “this is shocking violence”.
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