Giorgia Meloni challenges femicides: “We will not stop”

«I subscribe word for word to the memory of Giulia» Cecchettin of the Venetian governor Luca Zaia, «but also the responsibility that we all have in the face of an intolerable phenomenon that must be combatted at 360 degrees. I am particularly proud of the unanimity” of Parliament on the measures to combat gender-based violence, approved “with the contribution of all political forces”. I believe that there are issues on which the basis of discussion and sharing should and can make a difference. Parliament has demonstrated this in recent days and we will continue to move forward. We will not stop for something that is incompatible with our present.” Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said this when speaking in Verona at the signing of the cohesion agreement between the Government and the Veneto region.

Meanwhile, in 2023, femicides committed with the use of firearms increased, with 30 women killed (30.4% more than the 23 in the previous year and even lower numbers in previous years), especially in the family, where cases increase from 20 to 27. This was revealed by Eures-Economic and Social Research in 2023), the author had a regular license to carry a weapon, confirming how the possession of a weapon, although it does not in itself explain the homicide, can often function as an “accelerator”. The bladed weapon is confirmed as the prevalent method (with 39 women killed, equivalent to 37.1% of the total); more than one woman in 5 (21%) was killed “with her own hands” (i.e. by beatings, suffocation or strangulation, 22 compared to 25 in 2021), while the number of women killed with an ‘inappropriate weapon’ . The perpetrator of the crime is a man in 95.2% of cases and in 26.1% of cases he took his own life after committing femicide (percentage that rises to 43.2% when a daughter is killed, reaching 32.3 % in couple homicides and 19.8% in matricides). ).