"Never, ever would I have dreamed of offending a woman who was a victim of violence, and I offer her my deepest sympathy and solidarity." Former Senator Vincenzo D'Anna stated this in a statement, addressing the controversy that arose after his comment appeared under a post about the testimony of Sardinian Valentina Pitzalis, a survivor of an attempted femicide and the protagonist of a meeting with over two thousand students at the Arcimboldi University in Milan.

D'Anna, speaking of the woman who was severely burned and disfigured by the flames in 2011, wrote in his comment: "Because there are those who like their wives raw and those who like them cooked."

"First of all, I apologize to her," D'Anna continued. "I know my comment on the post (the original one from the Corriere della Sera) sparked a lot of reactions from those who didn't read Pitzalis's statements. Without that reference, as unfortunately often happens on social media, they unleashed summary justice."

" Mine was meant to be a sarcastic and hypothetical response to the question a woman asked herself when recounting her atrocious experience: 'Would I ask him why he did all this to me?' I imagined the joke that that madman, that evil man, might have—metaphysically—made. A joke that in no way reflects my thoughts," she concluded.

(Unioneonline)

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