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The founder of the Italian

Five Star Movement

party

, Beppe Grillo, publicly defended his son

Ciro

on Monday

, accused of gang raping a girl, and attacked the media for his information on the case. "My son appears in all the newspapers as a serial rapist with three other boys. I want an explanation of why a group of serial rapists, including my son, have not been arrested," he questioned in a video entitled

¿Journalists or judges ?

.

Ciro Grillo

, 20 years old and one of the four children of the comedian and founder of the most voted party in the last general elections in Italy, is accused of raping a 19-year-old girl with three other friends in the summer of 2019 in

Porto Cervo

(

Sardinia

, southeast). Although the young people have defended their innocence, the

Prosecutor's Office

believes that it was not consensual sex and in the coming days could request the opening of a trial against them, as the case is in the preliminary phase, according to local media.

Grillo, between shouts and fuss, claimed the innocence of his son and questioned that, if there were indications of guilt, he and his friends would be in preventive prison and not at liberty.

"Why haven't you arrested them? The law says that rapists are arrested, interrogated or placed in house arrest. They have been released for two years, why haven't you arrested them immediately? Or I would have taken them to court! jail with kicks in the ass! ", he says very upset before the camera.

And the answer is: "Because you have realized that it is not true that there has been a rape, because a person who is raped in the morning goes kitesurfing in the afternoon, and after eight days he denounces, and you It has seemed strange. It is true, it is strange, "he assures, referring to the young complainant.

"They are four idiots, not four rapists"

Grillo remembers that there is a video of what happened and in which "it is seen that there is consent" and that it was a group of young "idiots" who were having fun.

"There is a whole video in which passage by passage it is seen that there is consent, a group that laughs, 19-year-old young people who were having fun, who are in their underwear and are upset because they are four idiots, not four rapists," he says .

And he concludes: "I am tired for these two years, if you must arrest my son, because he has not done anything, arrest me too, because I am going to jail."

Grillo's reaction has been branded as sexist, but he has received the backing of the "anti-caste" party he founded in 2009. The president of the association against sexist violence

DiRe

,

Antonella Veltri

, believes that the case "demonstrates the operation of victimization secondary school, with which women are not believed, violence is minimized and the girl's behavior is judged almost as if she were the accused. "

The spokeswoman for the deputies of

the Democratic Party

,

Debora Serracchiani

, reproaches

Grillo

for using her "influence" to "cast the shadow of guilt on a girl who reported a rape."

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