“I grew up in Strasbourg and I have never experienced such an unhealthy climate for girls.” The bad adventure of Elisabeth, a 22-year-old French student with a passion for figure skating, makes France indignant. Last Friday he was walking back to his house around two in the afternoon when he crossed paths with his attackers. Three boys in their twenties who started insulting her for wearing one gonna too short.
“Look at this bitch in the miniskirt,” one of them tells her. “I took the liberty of answering ‘please?’ In a calm way,” the girl said a Radio France Blue. At that point the three lashed out at her, continuing to insult her and ordering her to shut up and lower her eyes. “Two of them immobilized me holding my arms and the third punched me in the face, then they disappeared”, he reconstructs Elisabeth, who still has the signs of insane aggression on his face.
Nothing is known about the three. “About fifteen people witnessed the scene but no one reacted either during the attack, or after, and not even now, none testimony, no reaction, it’s as if they hadn’t seen anything, as if nothing had happened “, the student comments bitterly. Nobody even intervened to call for help.” This is what makes me most angry “, he added looking straight into the “I’d like them to be tracked down, because what they did to me – he warns – they could do it to any woman, even a girl younger than me”.
Then he appeals to those who were in the surroundings of the Malraux media library that day. “If anyone recognized the described scene or recognized me – he said to France Blue – I’d like you to come forward, even anonymously, to find the attackers. “The Lower Rhine Departmental Public Security Directorate, according to what we read on Le Figaro, opened ainvestigation. The agents are scanning the images of the video surveillance cameras and have appealed to witnesses, asking to come forward and collaborate with the police.
The minister delegated to citizenship, Marlène Schiappa, also intervened on the case. “The skirt is not responsible for the attack and the woman even less,” he said, assuring that the police are working to block those responsible. In the meantime Elisabeth assures that she will return to wear the miniskirt. And in the country the debate on the safety after two days ago in another Alsatian city, Mulhouse, two 20-year-olds were attacked for the same reason by an 18-year-old boy.
“There is too little talk about the case of this student – denounces a user on Twitter – if she was attacked for wearing the velo it would have been a scandal. “” Elisabeth bravely denounced the unhealthy and violent climate that thousands of young French women have to endure every day, “attacks the deputy of the Rassemblement National, Virginie Joron, wishing the aggressors prison.
Solidarity with the girl also came from the former mayor of Strasbourg, now an MEP, Fabienne Keller: “Well done this young woman who had the courage to denounce”. In the city seat of the European Parliament less than 10 percent of women victims of employee on the street and sexist attacks it does.
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