Bologna, July 30, 2013 – Another hate crime on the streets of our country: two young men were brutally beaten last night in Sassari, attacked by a mob of youths (some very young) who targeted them 'because they were gay.' One of them is still hospitalized. "Parliament must take responsibility," says Flavio Romani, president of Arcigay, "and move quickly to fully extend the Mancino law to include homophobic and transphobic crimes. It must be done quickly," Romani urges, "because once that law is passed, it will be essential to broaden our perspective and initiate an urgent reflection on the social hatred that is increasingly manifesting itself in Italy. Women killed by their partners, bananas thrown at a black minister, a transsexual found dead after a beating at Termini station, a young couple attacked by a homophobic mob: these days are marked by a daily bulletin of violence, all of which have a social and cultural component, for which those who govern us and those who make laws must implement solutions. Femicide, racism, homotransphobia, and every other type of violence require the development of a roadmap of interventions that go far beyond the penal code and cannot ignore the analysis of the patterns prevalent in every context of our dominant culture. To the two young men attacked in Sassari— concludes Romani – we have sent our closeness. To them and to all of us, the institutions guarantee the prospect of a better country".
