Meloni’s associate beneath fireplace for offensive ‘rape’ feedback about ladies

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s husband is embroiled in a row after he made an outrageous assertion suggesting that younger ladies who exit at night time and drink an excessive amount of put themselves prone to sexual assault.

Andrea Giambruno, a TV presenter who has saved a low profile since Ms Meloni took workplace final October, has been accused of victim-blaming.

This row has attracted numerous detrimental consideration in Italy, making it to the entrance pages of main Italian newspapers on Wednesday.

Mr Giambruno, 42, who’s married to the prime minister and has a six-year-old daughter, made the remarks in response to a variety of distressing sexual assaults and group rapes in opposition to ladies in Italy this summer time.

Mr Giambruno stated on an episode of Diario del giorno on Monday night time: “If you go out dancing, you have every right to get drunk – there should be no kind of misunderstanding or impediment to this.

“But when you can keep away from getting drunk and dropping consciousness, possibly you’ll keep away from ending up in severe conditions through which the wolf will discover you.”

The TV host has responded to the outcry that met the remarks by arguing his statements had been misread and that he was perplexed by the subsequent debate, which he described as “surreal.”

He emphasised that he had clearly defined rape as “deporable” and perpetrators as “beast.”

Mr Giambruno told Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper: “I definitely by no means stated that it’s reputable for males to rape ladies who’re drunk.”

During the published of Mr Giambruno’s TV programme, the talk centred on a variety of current rape and murder instances.

These included the alleged gang rape of a 19-year-old girl by seven males in Palermo, Sicily, in the course of the time of his statements.

A bunch of teenage boys agesd11 to 19 have been accused of sexually assaulting two women aged 12 and 13 in a city close to Naples recognized for its excessive crime price.

These cousins had been subjected to a number of assaults, which had been recorded on movie by the attackers utilizing their cellphones.