Six teenage girls were treated to a culture-enriching experience when they attempted to take a train home from an amusement park in the Veneto region of northern Italy.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from Il Giornale:

“The white women don’t go up here.” Shocking harassment by North Africans on a train

Six girls were harassed on board a train that was taking them back to Milan after spending a day at an amusement park

by Valentina Dardari
June 4, 2022

A day that was supposed to be dedicated to pure fun was transformed instead into a nightmare for six girls who were returning by train from Gardaland. The young people, four residing in Milan and two in Pavia, were all between the ages of 16 and 17, and were on board regional train 2640 which was supposed to take them from Peschiera del Garda, in the province of Verona, to Milan after spending a day at the amusement park. As reported by Il Giornale.it, the girls were reportedly sexually harassed at length in a serious manner by a mob of some 100 North Africans.

“The white women don’t go up here”

The victims stated: “We were surrounded. The heat was suffocating, and some of us fainted. While we were looking for a controller, passing through the cars with difficulty,” the sexual harassment occurred. They recalled that their attackers then laughed while telling them: “The white women don’t go up here.” The incident happened in the late afternoon of last Thursday, June 2. The adolescents maintained that shortly after 6 pm, they were at the Peschiera train station, when the benches and platforms were invaded “by more than 100 boys and also some girls, the majority North Africans of our age or a little older. They were shouting and running. They also spat at the windows of a train that arrived before ours.”

According to the mayor of Castelnuovo del Garda, Giovanni Dal Cero, it was probably those young men who were part of a crowd that, earlier in the day, had poured onto the Peschiera shore and participated in a large brawl at Lake Garda that had been organized on social media, during which some stabbings and some acts of vandalism occurred. A video posted on TikTok, in fact, advertised a sort of rally for June 2. The direct train to Milan was packed with passengers. It appears that the victims of the sexual harassment did not alert the police for fear of being beaten, but decided to call their parents, who dialed 112, “but nobody intervened”, the mothers and fathers reported. Coming to the rescue of the victims was a boy who helped them get off at the next stop, Desenzano. Yesterday all of them filed reports with the Railway Police at the Milan Central Station.

Appeal by the governor of Veneto

Luca Zaia, governor of the Veneto region, has commented on what occurred. “We continue our daily battle for not only individual liberty but social liberty. It is unthinkable that our girls are molested, harassed, or that they are objects of aggression on our territory. My call is for zero tolerance, and that the police exert the maximum effort to find those responsible.” The governor then stressed that the population of Veneto is accustomed to having social relations based on respect for people and the rules. “The idea that incidents like these can become commonplace, or even worse, that we can become used to them, is unacceptable. We have never even become accustomed to putting alarms in our houses or thinking of locking ourselves inside. I repeat, zero tolerance,” he maintained.