They donated $ 170,000 for a new house, but bought a Mercedes Benz A-Class

The story of Malika Chalhy, a 22-year-old girl who was denied and kicked out of her home after revealing to her parents that she was a lesbian, shocked Italy and pointed to the discrimination and abuse some LGBT people hear while living their sexuality openly. It was she herself who told various local and national media about her family situation after being threatened by her mother on social networks.

After the public complaint, her cousin decided to start two fundraisers on the GoFundMe website “to help her rebuild her life.” Many people decided to contribute since Malika said she was homeless. The first collection almost reaches $ 170,000 and the second (still open) is already at $ 15,000.

Chalhy, however, is still at the center of the controversy. In a photo posted on social media, you can see Malika driving a new Mercedes A-Class. The young woman first justified herself by saying that the car belonged to the parents of her companion, with whom she now lives in Milan, but apparently that was a lie.

Cuando se le preguntó sobre el tema del Mercedes, Malika finalmente lo admitió: “Quería darme un capricho. Compré un buen coche, podría haberme comprado uno pequeño y no lo hice. Si mentí sobre el coche es porque me encerraron, me metieron en a wardrobe…”.

But the controversy does not end there, they also accuse him of having bought a French bulldog for 3000 dollars. “He took the most expensive dog,” the seller told Tpi. “I didn’t recognize her at first, but then I found out. She spent $ 3,000 paid with two bank transfers, one on May 15 and the other on May 21. She took the most expensive.”

The official story “

According to the first version of the young woman, Malika fell in love with another woman and confessed to her family. Outraged by this revelation, at the beginning of the year their daughter was kicked out of the family home. Her parents even refused to give her clothes, leaving her completely alone, without even a spare shirt. They kicked her out of the house to the point that they changed the lock so that Malika could not come back to collect her things.

Homeless to sleep and in a desperate attempt to get something to wear, Malika showed up to her home escorted by police. But once he knocked on the door, his mother looked out the window and exclaimed to the officers: “I do not know this person.”

The young woman also received threats, which she reported and recorded on her cell phone. “If you come back we will kill you, better 50 years in prison than a lesbian girl” or “better a drug addict girl than a lesbian.” Others are lucky because they have normal children. Only it stinks like that “, are some of the insults Malika must have heard from her own parents.

Malika, from Castelfiorentino, told her story to various Italian media and reported her situation to the Florence public prosecutor’s office, which opened an investigation. In line with Malika Chalhy’s testimony, her father and brother, three years older than her, also attacked the young woman with insults. Given the threats he received from his brother at Easter, Chalhy justified making his story public.

The case, which quickly caught on on social networks and the media, shocked a large part of the Italian population. Human rights associations, personalities from the entertainment and sports world have expressed their solidarity with the young Tuscan. Aid which now, from the new revelations, remained at the center of the controversy.

A collection was organized via the Internet which raised more than 100,000 dollars in a few days., money the young woman was supposed to use to buy a new house, which did not happen.

“I’m not the one who should be ashamed of. I’m not the one who isn’t normal. It is not normal to hit a child or to insult him for who he is or chooses to be, it is not normal to judge and point fingers at others, it is not normal to blame someone just for being gay, ”the victim said.

Asked about his version of what happened, Samir Chalhy, the young woman’s brother, told the local press that his sister “does not tell the whole truth”, in reference to the fact that the young woman would not have shown audios in which parents ask them to come home and his brother told him that he could lodge him in the Piedmont city of Alexandria.

Likewise, Samir Chalhy was justified in the interview by insults towards his sister and threats pointing out that these were sentences he had said in “a moment of anger, after having tried to contact her during months “and it was about things never say it again.”.

In addition, the young man emphasizes that his sister exposes his story because “there is money at stake” and defends his parents by saying that “they did not deserve” to be denounced.