Man convicted for staring at woman
An Italian man was given a suspended jail sentence for staring at a woman sitting in front of him on a train.
A judge sentenced the man in his 30s, whose name was not revealed, to 10 days in prison and a 40 Euro fine after a 55-year old woman filed a complaint for sexual harassment.
His lawyer said he would appeal the sentence. The court will explain its verdict later.
The two met on two separate occasions in 2005 on a commuter train going from Lecco, a town in northern Italy, to Milan.
The first time, the man sat next to the woman but she felt he had moved too close for comfort. The next day, the man sat in front of the same woman and according to her complaint, stared at her for the whole journey.
The two did not speak.
This judgement is seen by many men’s group group as representing a perversion of the fundamentals of justice in many western countries, whereby the definition of sexual harassment has become so gendered and diluted, that it can be applied to almost any situation involving some form of interaction, whether real or imagined, between a man and a woman.
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