As sunny spring weather begins to appear, some of Europe’s warmer Mediterranean nations have entered barbecue season unexpectedly early: it must be all that global boiling. Unfortunately, in Italy this year pets appear to be on the menu. In mid-April, a shoeless Nigerian was caught cooking a cat on what was called “a makeshift barbecue” (i.e., a fire lit on the floor) in the middle of a children’s playground. The sight awaiting passing bambinos was horrific, but could have been even worse: at least the man didn’t do something else that rhymes with ‘cook’ to it instead.
Elsewhere in Italy at this same time, another poor feline, who was to become known alliteratively as ‘Rosi the Raped Roman Cat’, found herself likewise being kebabbed by an incomer in a public park, being tortured and then raped so badly that her intestines were damaged. The crime was allegedly perpetrated by another illegal African migrant, driving public protests by concerned Italians and animal rights activists who drew parallels between the way male migrants were treating both women and animals. Scarily, Rome’s animal welfare authorities said Rosi the Riveted’s case “cannot be considered an isolated incident”.
Heavy petting zoo
Stories of refugees being intimate with animals rarely make the mainstream media, for obvious reasons. To gain news of this kind of thing, you therefore need to head towards more alternative websites like Remix News, which are habitually labelled sources of ‘disinformation’ on account of the way they publish things traditional newspapers simply will not. If these stories really were made up, they’d be sort of amusing. But they appear to be true, so in fact are just highly disturbing.
On the above site, you can find many interesting real-life immigrant bestiality stories, the latest being that of the 19 year-old Afghan arrested in France on charges of a series of rapes perpetrated upon sheep and goats outside Marseilles. Farmers had been waking up to find their animals with legs tied apart and “clear signs of rape” splattered across their orifices. The rapist faces a potential €45,000 fine. But how, as a now-unemployable 19 year-old known Afghan animal-rapist, is he possibly going to be able to pay it? He isn’t.
Ponies seem the most common victims. In 2023, a black man was caught on camera raping a pony in its stable near Hamburg for “14 disgusting minutes”, while standing on a log and a wheelbarrow so he could reach its fun parts. In 2017, a Syrian raped another pony in broad daylight at Berlin’s Görlitzer Park petting zoo, in front of visiting children who were still young enough to be confused by his unorthodox mounting and riding technique. Apparently, it was “unclear” if the man was ever charged by police. Less unclear was the legal fate of a 52 year-old Turkish asylum seeker who broke into a stable before being literally caught with his pants down bouncing up and down on yet another unfortunate pony. Police did apprehend the miscreant, upon charges of trespassing and having “abused several ponies routinely”, but they then let him go because “that’s not enough for prison or deportation”, leaving village locals in fear the man might try playing horsey with their own children one day soon.
When post-war European jurists originally constructed their incipient edifice of human rights law, is it really likely they one day thought its protections would be extended towards people who bummed livestock? If the West can’t even deport animal rapists anymore, then we really are in trouble. Yet our courts do seem strangely reluctant to treat such perverts as harshly as they deserve.
Hellbound and Down 