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Last night in Milan, an 18-year-old girl was beaten and raped while trying to catch a train home. She had just turned 18. She called the emergency line herself, her voice breaking as she said what had been done to her—dragged from the station underpass at San Zenone al Lambro into the trees, beaten, raped, abandoned. The rescuers found her with the marks still on her body, rushed her first to the Policlinico di Milano, then to Mangiagalli’s anti-violence center. She was treated, examined, processed like one more case in a long line of cases. One more scar added to a system that records but doesn’t stop the violence. The investigation has begun. The Lodi prosecutor’s office is coordinating with the Milan carabinieri. They’re reviewing the cameras, piecing together the story. Witnesses described the man as a North African. He walked up, dragged her behind the station, and destroyed her life in minutes. As @andst7 asks, we’re now left with the same question that no one in power ever answers: how many? How many rapes, how many assaults, how many robberies do we have to wait through before the institutions act? Do they have a number in mind? Do they need ten more? A hundred? A thousand? Tell us what the quota is—because for ordinary people, even one is already too many. And here’s the truth nobody in power will say: this keeps happening because the state has made it policy. They open the borders, wave people through without screening, and dump the costs of their decisions on ordinary citizens. The girl pays in blood while politicians pay nothing. The police arrive after the fact, the prosecutors file paperwork, and the cycle resets. So ask the real question: if the state won’t protect an 18-year-old on her way home, then who exactly do they protect? Because it’s not her. And it’s not you.