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Italian agency shocks country with data claiming that migrants are behind nearly half of violent sex attacks




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Data released by the Italian statistics agency ISTAT has shown that almost half of violent sex attacks and rapes recorded in the country are committed by migrants.

ISAT statistics revealed that around 42 per cent of the violent sex crimes against women in Italy are committed by foreigners, with non-European Union citizens representing a significant portion of sex attackers Il Giornale reports.

It was found that since 2018, reveal that there were 4,802 violent sex attacks that year and that 2,009 of them involved foreign attackers and the proportion of foreign sex attacker is exceptionally high compared to the foreign share of the Italian population, which is approximately 8.6 per cent the Italian national newspaper goes on to note.

Most of the foreigners engaging in sex attacks in Italy are non-European migrants with Nigerians and Moroccans making up the largest numbers of foreign rapists and sex attackers.

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