Femicides, 57 violent deaths since the beginning of the year. One every three days

From 1 January 2022 to today,

by relatives, companions, husbands, ex. 

According to data from the Interior Ministry,

: the 32-year-old Cristina Peroni, killed today in Rimini by her companion Simone Benedetto, aged 47, in front of their six-month-old child, must be added to the tragic toll. 

In order of time,

there are the femicides of Caterina D'Andrea, 73, killed by her husband Pietro Brigantino who shot her in the head.

Donatella Miccoli, 38, killed by her husband Matteo Verdesca in Novoli (Lecce).

Elisabetta Molaro, 40, dies stabbed by her husband Paolo Castellani, 44.

Filomena Galeone, 61, who dies at the hands of her 17-year-old son, was stabbed in Naples.

Double femicide in Castelfranco (Modena): Salvatore Montefusco kills his 47-year-old wife Gabriela Trafandir and her daughter, Renata Alexandra Trafandir aged 22.

In Portogruaro (Venice) Giuseppe Santrarosa kills his 50-year-old wife Lorena Puppo.

Also in June, 42-year-old Lidia Miljkovic dies with a pistol, killed by her ex-partner who had also killed her new girlfriend before her and then committed suicide.

Femicides and gender-based violence 

According to the latest annual report of the State Police released last April, homicides in which the victim is a woman increased, but not in percentage terms:

(103 in the family or affective context) out of a total of 301 homicides in 2021, while there were

(101 in the family).

However, there was a decline in the four-year period: in fact,

women were killed in 2018. 

Increased the so-called "spy crimes", an expression of physical, sexual, psychological or economic violence directed against a woman as such.

The maltreatments were 17,423 in 2018 and 22,431 in 2021 (82% against women), 4,886 sexual violence in 2018 and 4,960 in 2021 (over 9 out of 10 against women).