“If you go dancing you are fully entitled to get drunk...but if you avoid getting drunk and losing consciousness, perhaps you’d also avoid getting into trouble because you’ll find the wolf (if you get drunk),” Andrea Giambruno, journalist on the right-leaning channel Rete 4, said on a show Monday night.
Speaking of recent high-profile alleged gang rape cases near Naples and in Palermo, Giambruno, who has a seven-year-old daughter with Meloni, agreed with right-wing Libero newspaper editor Pietro Senaldi who said that “if you want to avoid rape, above all don’t lose consciousness, keep your wits about you”.
Both men voiced extreme condemnation of the rapists they called “wolves”.
Giambruno’s comments caused a storm on social media with posters accusing him of blaming the victim.
The centre-left opposition Democratic Party (PD) called on Meloni to distance herself from her partner’s comments.
Veteran Italian TV journalist Enrico Mentana on Tuesday chided Giambruno, for “talking rubbish”.
“If you follow this logic, and you're a journalist on TV, whether you're single or married, when you talk arrant rubbish, and half the world jumps onto you, you should know who to blame”.
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