The man started touching my daughter everywhere and held his hand over her mouth to stop her from screaming. A mother from Parma, in tears as well as anger, recounts the horrific story that happened to her 14-year-old daughter and which she reported to the police. The nightmare for the pupil of a local school began on Saturday evening at the bus stop under the Portici del Grano and continued all the way to her house.
The fourteen-year-old girl, who lives in Via Sidoli, after spending the whole afternoon in the town centre with her friends – all girls and boys more or less her age, classmates and some from other schools, a group known to the girl’s family – went to the bus stop accompanied by her friends.
But then he came. The man of North African origin, between twenty and twenty-five years old, a face that was unfortunately already familiar to the group of young people. Fifteen days ago,” says the mother”, “he had already molested my daughter. The incident had taken place in a bar in Via D’Azeglio. “He was very upset and at one point tried to hug her. However, the girl managed to push him away with the help of her friends. That same evening, a girlfriend of hers was even worse off. “She was also approached by this man who tried to hug her, as he had done with my daughter. In an attempt to free herself, she was punched in the face.”
All this happened fifteen days ago. On the Saturday before they met him in front of the bus stop, the group of friends had already encountered him in another club in the city centre, one of the places where groups of young people, some of them known as “Nafri gangs” (North African gangs), hang out on Saturdays and often annoy the younger ones. The same sad ” scenario ” there too.”Constantly, he would harass her again, try to stop her and then again to hug her.” The girl ran away from her friends, hoping it would all end there. But it didn’t. A little later, at the bus stop, the young man reappeared. Eventually the bus arrives, the 14-year-old girl says goodbye to her friends and gets on, but the young man does the same. The two find themselves on the same bus. Once again he molested her,” the mother continues, “he babbled something that my daughter didn’t understand. Then he sat down next to her. My daughter then tried to make a phone call, but he snatched the phone out of her hand. However, the girl managed to get her smartphone and sit next to the driver, while the perpetrator stayed in the back of the bus.”
This was already a terrible journey, but it was about to get even more terrible. In Via Sidoli, the schoolgirl got off the bus and went home. But at the bus stop, the boy got off and started to follow her.
The young woman hurried on. Then she started walking, still with the North African at her back. When she arrived in front of the house, she was caught and blocked. “He pushed her against a wall and started touching and kissing her all over. To stop her from screaming, he held his hand in front of her mouth and to her neck,” her mother says in a trembling voice.
In her desperation, the 14-year-old girl managed to pull her hand away and scream for help. Her mother, who was inside the house, realised that the call was from her daughter (the woman says her daughter screamed: “Help, help, stop, go away”) and opened the gate through the intercom.
My daughter managed to get into the house and save herself,” she adds, “and in the meantime I rushed to the balcony to try to identify the attacker. But he ran away.
Yesterday, the woman went to the police station to report the incident and the police are on the trail of the attacker, who could be charged with sexual assault. Once the fear and shock fade away, a great deal of anger remains. “The mother’s outburst: “This situation of insecurity can no longer be tolerated in this city.” VoxNews