Overview

• Phica.eu, active since 2005 with hundreds of thousands of users, aggregated women’s photos without consent, often adding obscene or violent comments and pornographic manipulations.
• Local PD politician Valeria Campagna publicly exposed the forum after finding her images, filed a complaint, and urged broader cultural change.
• Other figures, including MEP Alessandra Moretti, lodged complaints, citing years of stolen photos and TV clips and extensive degrading commentary.
• The site first referenced a DMCA-style removal process, then announced closure and said all content will be deleted, citing failure to curb toxic behavior.
• Italian postal police have opened an investigation, and the case is being linked to prior voyeuristic communities such as the shuttered Facebook group “Mia Moglie.”