Giorgia Meloni is criticized because she shared a video of attempted rape by asylum seekers

Italy's probably next prime minister was accused of trying to collect political points after shared a video of an African asylum seeker on social media who was supposed to rape a white woman early on Sunday morning.

Giorgia Meloni, a right -wing extremist native politician from Rome, who is expected to become Italy's first female President of Female next month, made the alleged attack "terrible propaganda", said her opponents.

The migrant from Guinea is said to have attacked the 55-year-old Ukrainian when she walked a street along the northern city of Piacenza at around 6 a.m.

It was not immediately clear whether the Ukrainian woman was a refugee who has come into the country in the past few months since the Russian invasion, or a resident - Italy has a large population of Ukrainians, many of whom work as cleaners and supervisors

A resident was witness to the alleged attack, called the police and filmed the asylum seeker when he pressed the woman to the ground. The 26-year-old Guineer was arrested by the police and taken into custody while the woman was taken to the hospital in shock.

The video was dealt with in detail by the Italian media and made it on Monday to the front page of at least one national newspaper.

Ms. Meloni, the chair of the post -fascist party "Brothers of Italy", which could result in the elections of September 25th as Prime Minister, quickly took up the alleged attack.

"You cannot be silent if you are confronted with such a gruesome episode of sexual violence that an asylum seeker committed against an Ukrainian woman," wrote Ms. Meloni, who asked the Italian marine to prevent migrant boats from reaching Italian coasts from North Africa on Twitter.

Ms. Meloni starts this week in the election campaign

Ms. Meloni will open her election campaign on Tuesday in Ancona, a city on the Adriatic coast.

National vote takes place almost 100 years after Benito Mussolini, Italy's fascist dictator, took place in October 1922.

Matteo Salvini, the chairman of the right -wing extremist league, which will lead the election in the alliance with the brothers in Italy, also used the alleged rape to promote his demands for a hard approach to the arrival of boats via the Mediterranean

"sufficient! The defense of the borders and the Italian will be a duty for me," said Mr. Salvini, who positions himself as the Interior Minister if the legal alliance wins the elections, as surveys predict.

He said he would soon visit Piacenza to "confirm the commitment of the league for the restoration of security in our country".

Mr. Salvini said that if he was part of the next government, he would recruit 10,000 additional police officers by the next year - without explaining how such an extension would be financed.

politicians of the left said it was outrageous that the two guides had published the video and the still images of alleged rape and said that the right to privacy of the Ukrainian woman was on your feet.

Enrico Letta, the chairman of the most important center-left party, the Democratic Party, said the decision to publish the pictures was "indecent and undeniable.

Anna Ascani, a MP of the Democratic Party, accused Mrs. Meloni, who was all used to use the alleged rape for "terrible propaganda", and said that the Ukrainian "probably had the most terrible moment of her life", a torture that would now be seen by millions of people.

The mayor of Piacenza in the northern region of Emilia-Romagna said that the alleged rape should not be used for political purposes.

The nationality of the alleged attacker should not be “exploited”, said Katia Tarasconi.

At the beginning of this month, Ms. Meloni said the brothers of Italy, who originated in the country's fascist post -war movement, had left the fascism of history to dispel the concerns about their expected rise to power.

Your explanation, however, met with skepticism in many places.

critics asked why the party in its logo still maintains the image of a three -color flame with fascist connotations - it was inherited from a neo -fascist party that was founded after the Second World War.