The northern Italian city of Milan seems to have more than its share of incidents in which culture-enrichers experience “sexual emergencies” while on public transport. Or maybe Milan just has more than its share of culture-enrichers.

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

Hell on the Milan metro: “Herd” blocks Metro, then the gropings. Two Egyptians in handcuffs

Two Egyptians have been arrested for the groping of a girl on the Milan metro Sunday night: One is a minor.

by Francesca Galici
July 24, 2023

To understand what is the security situation in Milan, you just have to take a walk on the streets and realize the degradation into which the city administered by [Mayor] Beppe Sala has fallen. You can consider yourself lucky if you don’t fall victim to a violent incident or a robbery, and if you are a woman, you can consider yourself lucky if you return home without being subjected to sexual harassment or even rape. This is what Milan has become, whether by day or night, not only in the peripheral zones but also in the city center. At this point, to define it as an urban jungle is an understatement on how it has been transformed in recent years, also due to indiscriminate immigration, which has compromised the social fabric of the city. The latest incident involving sexual crime occurred a few hours ago and has as its protagonist a young girl who was sexually harassed by two Egyptians at the entrance to the Dergano metro stop.

The events occurred on Sunday July 23, at around 11:30pm. The victim, born in 2002, was with a girlfriend and was approached by three foreigners, who groped her. Two of these, a 17-year-old and an 18-year-old, both Egyptians, were arrested by the police. The minor was taken to Beccaria (youth detention facility), and the other to San Vittore prison. For them the charge is group sexual violence. The three fled on foot immediately after the assault, and while two were tracked down, also thanks to the alarm issued by the victim, the third managed, for the moment, to get away.

The intervention was by the agents of the Comasina police station, who at that moment were patrolling in that area and rushed to the scene after the alarm, putting themselves immediately on the trail of the three men. The arrest was possible in very quick time also thanks to the accurate description furnished by the two girls, who in those moments of excitement managed to gather details and particulars useful for the search.

This case is added to all the other reports during the first seven months of the year, but it is estimated that they are only a portion, probably about half, of those that actually occurred. The majority of women, in fact, tend not to report the violence, much less the sexual harassment suffered; therefore, to have a precise estimate is not possible, but the numbers represent an emergency that is now undeniable, even if all too often we tend to underestimate it.