Reports of women harassed by the Alpini, the organizers of the Rimini-San Marino Gathering: “No complaint”
“Alleged harassment, without complaint”.
After the series of reports collected by some social networks and related to harassment that they want to have been to a few dozen girls during 93a National Gathering of the Alpiniwhich ended yesterday in Rimini and San Marino, the national Alpine team, communicated through an Association, “obviously distances itself, stigmatizing them, from the incisive behaviors reported, which certainly do not belong to traditions and values that it has always preserved and carried forward”.
At the same time, however, “he underlines that, after the appropriate investigations, it appears that no complaint has been submitted to the police; then notes that thousands of people gather in a single location every year to celebrate it is almost physiological that episodes of rudeness can occur, which however certainly cannot invalidate the value of the messages of peace, brotherhood, and love for the homeland that are conveyed by over a century since the Gathering: messages that emerged in all their essence on the banners brought to the parade on Sunday, with over 75,000 black feathers from all over the world ”.
The Ana also “points out that there are cities, if not thousands, of young people who, although not Alpine, take advantage of the situation: to mix with the big party, it is enough to buy an Alpine hat, even if it is not original. , on any stall “.
And again: “An expert eye immediately gets a ‘fake’ hat, but the tendency is in most cases to generalize. The great majority of Ana’s members, then, due to the suspension of the military service in 2004, are now at least 38 years old: therefore much younger people are authentic Alpine “.
The National Alpine Association, “for what black feathers are and represent, therefore considers it ungenerous and unjustified to convey a message that associates the figure of the Alpine with those episodes of rudeness”.
The retired Alpine troops “are those who have written and continue to write intense pages of sacrifice, love and solidarity, as evidenced for example by the 5.4 million hours of voluntary work performed in a year during the Covid emergency, and who they are committed to transmitting their values to young people, as happens in the school camps, which this year too will be organized throughout Italy for girls and boys aged 16 to 25 ”.