It was supposed to be an evening full of celebrations, but for Christian Floris, artistic director of the Alassio culture festival, it turned into an evening with a bitter aftertaste. The well-known orator from Turin was in fact the victim of a violent homophobic attack by two girls in a club in the center of Turin.
After attending Marco Mengoni’s concert at the Grande Torino stadium, the speaker moved to the center to meet a friend’s mother with whom he wanted to have dinner. Once in the club, the verbal aggression: “After I had drunk a lot of water, I went to the club’s toilet,” he says in a story on Facebook, “But whoever was inside didn’t pee.”
In fact, the two girls — who were 18 or 20, according to Floris — were taking selfies and answering the phone. Because of this, the man knocked on the door and asked for a hurry: “When the two girls went out, they pushed me and started insulting me. They beat me as if to provoke me. I threatened to report them and they kept yelling “at me.”
The man also recorded a video he posted in which one of the two can be heard insulting him in a homophobic manner. They told him “Ricc *** ne di me ** a”. In order to defend Floris, some of the restaurant’s customers and the owners, the man called the police anyway. The radio announcer takes home a scratched arm and a lot of bitterness from this terrible experience. “If the messages we’re hearing everywhere aren’t enough to pierce some characters and minds, justice is needed, so I will report the fact as suggested by the police who intervened at the scene.”