Italian girls so pretty they risk being raped: PM
27 Jan 2009, 0121 hrs IST, ANI
LONDON: Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has fuelled a furore yet again by saying that women in the country were so beautiful that they needed
military escorts to avoid being raped.
The Italian premier has landed in soup over his comments, which came in response to questions about his proposal to deploy 300,000 soldiers in the streets to fight crime. The move came in line with a series of violent attacks, including a rape in Rome on New Year’s Eve and another outside the capital.
However, the PM said that crimes like rape could happen even in a militarised state, as Italian women are so pretty. “You can’t consider deploying a force that would be sufficient to prevent the risk,” the Telegraph quoted him as saying. He added: “We would have to have so many soldiers because our women are so beautiful.”
But, Berlusconi’s comments did not go quite well with opposition lawmakers like Giovanna Melandri of the Democratic Party, who said that the remarks were “profoundly offensive”.
On his defence, Berlusconi said he was complimenting Italian women “because there are only about 100,000 people in law enforcement, while there are millions of beautiful women.” While he stressed that rape was a serious and “disgraceful” crime, he added that his comments were in pure “levity and good humour.”
I think we can all agree to disagree about italian girls being beautiful. I mean yes majority of them are drop dead gorgeous but the same rule applies to almost any other breed of society. Especially Latinos and Pakis.
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