A demonstration for the International Day of Violence Against Women in Rome over the weekend turned violent itself when the feminist protesters vandalized and threw Molotov cocktails at the national headquarters of the pro-life group Pro Vita & Famiglia.
“The mask has fallen, showing the true face of transfeminism: an aggressive, violent, dangerous and ideological movement that does not tolerate those who think differently than them and that does not care about poor women who are victims of femicide,” Pro Vita & Famiglia said in a statement.
Organizers of Saturday’s march and local politicians responsible for allowing the demonstration have failed to commend the violence of this group of participants, the Italian newspaper Il Giornali noted.
Some participants in the demonstration on Sunday threw bottles, stones, and smoke bombs at the offices of the pro-life and pro-family group, knocking down shutters and breaking windows. They tried several times to set fire to the premises despite the police in front of the building blocking protesters. Luckily no one was in the office at the time, the organization said.
The organization’s spokesperson, Jacopo Coghe, also said that an undetonated explosive device was found in the building the day after the vandalism occurred.
He denounced the attack in a message on the social network X: “Those ‘against all violence’ are perpetrating unprecedented violence against our headquarters. Blind hatred and furious violence.”
He noted in other posts the silence of most media outlets regarding the attack on their headquarters.
“Whoever does not condemn is an accomplice!” Coghe stated, adding in another message that “feminist movements are violent and ideological” and “are against women.”
Fratelli d’Italia MEP Carlo Fidanza has expressed his solidarity with the organization: “A hug to the friends of Pro Vita & Famiglia and a very harsh condemnation, which I hope comes from all political forces, to those who attacked its headquarters.”
He has, so far, been the only politician to denounce the violence.
In its message for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Pro-Vida & Famiglia declared that feminism is “a much greater enemy of women than any phantom ‘patriarchy’ because it manipulates the true reasons for the phenomenon preventing its resolution.”
