Scandal for a sexist failure | They absolve to rape …

An Italian court of appeal acquitted two men accused of rape on the badumption that the victim was "too masculine" to be attractive. The case dates back to 2015, when a 22-year-old Peruvian woman was attacked after the men drugged herself while she was in a bar. Medical experts discovered that his injuries coincided with the abuse and that his blood contained high concentrations of benzodiazepines (drugs with sedative effects).

Although the men were convicted of the crime in 2016, the Court of Appeals of the city of Ancona, consisting of three women, questioned the testimony of the victim because she claimed she was not guilty of the crime. Was not attractive. The judges based their findings on the victim's photo, after the defendants had stated that they could not be attracted to her and that one of them had recorded her number on his mobile phone under the name "Viking"

Criticism was swift and on Friday, as thousands of women fought for their rights as part of the international women's strike, more than 200 people went to court to express their strong condemnation of hardly called "medieval". "The worst thing is the cultural message of three judges who acquitted these two men because they had decided that it was unlikely that they would want to rape someone who had been in prison. look like a man, "said Luisa Rizzitelli, spokesperson for the Rebel Network, the group that organized the Ancona event

The victim's lawyer, Cinzia Molonaro, said that it was "unpleasant" to read the decision because the judges had motivated their decision to lift the charges, but one of them was that the defendants had declared "that they did not even like it because it was ugly". "They even wrote that the picture of the woman reflected that," she complains. Molinaro said that the woman returned to Peru after the community of Ancona excluded her because she had denounced the men. The case will now be taken over by a court of Perugia.