A case of the video of the singer touched on stage. Giulia Bongiorno: “That is sexual violence, a crime punishable from 6 to twelve years”. The silence of the winner of Sanremo with Mahmood: “A bath of love”
NNobody would have noticed (apart Blanco), if @luciadalgri hadn’t posted the video on Tik Tok. And in that short videowhich then went around the web (also thanks to tweet from @camreline), the Brescian artist, to the century Riccardo Fabbriconi19 years, Sanremo 2022 won with Mahmoodis closing the party in Piazza Duomo for the forty years of Radio Italia in a sea of fans, while a female hand lingers a little too much on its center of gravity. And Lucia, the author of the images, comments superimposed: «Thanks to the girl who puts her hand on Blanco’s c … ruining the video where he takes my boyfriend by the hand».
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Harassment or sexual violence?
Maybe it would have ended there if those images hadn’t gone viral, triggering comments in favor, against, it is a harassment, it is not a harassment, he was surrounded by fans (so if he was looking for it?), In other times the singer would have called the groupie in the dressing room and no one would have anything to say, and so on indefinitely. Or maybe not. Because what happened to Blanco, in a square that held 19,900 people, plus another thirty thousand around, became the starting point for asking a question and trying to find the answer. Was it harassment?
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A crime punishable from 6 to 12 years
“No, it was sexual violence,” says the lawyer Giulia Bongiorno, Northern League senator, founder together with Michelle Hunziker of “Double defense”, the non-profit organization committed against discrimination, abuse and violence against women. Criminal Code in hand, article 609 bis, explains: “Sexual violence consists of any act which resolves itself into even fleeting bodily contact between passive and active subject endangers the freedom of self-determination”. In the case: groping erogenous zones without the consent of the other – man or woman – can integrate the crime of sexual violence, with a sentence of 6 to 12 years of imprisonment. “The key word is consent,” the lawyer goes on. “During his performance Blanco was not in a position to show it.”
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It is not a “trick”
Much of the discussion on social media has instead focused on the word “harassment” – in reverse, what would have happened? – which Giulia Bongiorno, however, excludes. “Sexual harassment occurs in the case of vulgar expressions of a sexual nature: invasive and persistent courtship acts other than sexual abuse “. But even here, the parliamentarian points out: «I would like him not to be deprived of the joke. What happened to Blanco is not “a serious matter”: it is a crime ».
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Blanco’s silence
Many comments, especially from women, demonstrate new awareness. @ In2siamounklan writes on Twitter: «Riccardo does not authorize you to touch him as you please just because he approaches you during concerts, in the same way that a girl does not authorize you to do anything just because she is wearing a miniskirt. The basic concept remains respect ». It would be interesting to know what the person concerned thinks. Ma Blanco, in the post published after the concert on Instagram, he only gives an appointment to fans in Bologna and thanks them. «A bath of love». No comment.
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May 24, 2022 (change May 24, 2022 | 22:53)
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