There have been over 90 femicides in
Italy in 2024, five of them in the last week alone, the interior
ministry said Friday amid the first appearance in court of
Filippo Turetta, a young man who has confessed to the brutal
murder last year of his 22-year-old former girlfriend Giulia
Cecchettin in a case that shocked Italy and highlighted its
problem with femicide and gender-based violence, which is
showing a slight decrease but is still at near-record levels.
The massacre of victims over 70, killed by their partners after
very long marriages or cohabitations, shows no sign of stopping,
the ministry said.
Between January 1 and October 20, 2024, 89 femicides in all were
recorded.
Of these victims, 77 were killed in the family or emotional
sphere and of these 48 were killed by their partner or
ex-partner.
The data, from the Ministry of the Interior, report an annual
decrease in the number of victims from 100 to 89 (-11%).
Crimes committed in the family and emotional sphere also show a
decrease with a fall in the number of victims from 82 to 77
(-6%).
Also decreasing compared to the same period in 2023 is the
number of femicides committed by a partner or ex-partner, which
goes from 53 to 48 (-9%).
The age of the victims of femicides is also changing: about one
in five victims in 2024 is over 70, all killed by their husbands
after marriages lasting 40 or 50 years: like Serenella Mugnai,
72, an Alzheimer's patient killed by her husband Alessandro
Sacchi, now in his eighties; like Elisa Scavone, 65, killed by
her husband Luciano Sofia, 70 in Borgo Filadelfia, Turin, on
January 11; like Rosetta Romano, at 73, who stood by her
authoritarian husband until the end who, at 81, strangled and
suffocated her on June 30; like Rosa D'Ascenzo, 71, who died at
the beginning of January from a violent blow to the temple with
an iron frying pan and was also beaten and kicked by her husband
Giulio Camilli, 73, in their farmhouse in Sant'Oreste, in the
province of Rome.
A story similar to that of Lucia Felici, 75, killed by her
husband Carmine Alfano, 82, in Castelnuovo di Porto on August 9;
or that of Annarita Morelli, killed at 72 by her husband
Domenico Ossoli, 73, on August 6 with a gunshot.
In the last week there have been five other femicides: on
Thursday Marina Cavalieri, 62, a retired nurse, was found by a
nephew in her home, lifeless on the ground while her husband had
disappeared without a trace. The man, 65 years old from
Sant'Andrea Bagni, a municipality near Medesano (Parma), was
tracked down in Orbetello (Grosseto) and arrested for killing
his wife with his rifle.
Flavia Mello Agonigi, the 54-year-old woman missing for days in
Pontedera (Pisa), was found dead Thursday afternoon in a house
not far from Casciana Terme (Pisa), in Valdera.
The police arrested Emanuele Nannetti, 34, responsible for the
femicide, who stabbed her and threw her body into a cellar
cistern.
Giovanna Chinnici, 63, died Thursday in hospital in Desio
(Monza), stabbed to death by her brother-in-law, Giuseppe
Caputo, 62, who wounded her with several stab wounds to the
chest, after an argument in Nova Milanese (Monza).
It was October 18 when Celeste Palmieri, 56, was shot dead as
she left the supermarket by her husband Mario Furio, 59, a
retired prison officer, from whom she was separating.
She had five children.
He was wearing an electronic bracelet but her receiver didn't
work.
Lucian Tuduran, 41, also had an electronic bracelet.
On the same day, on the 18th, he killed his ex-partner Carmela
Ion in Civitavecchia, a 56-year-old homeless woman who no longer
had a cell phone and therefore didn't receive a notification of
her killer's presence.
The woman was first attacked and then suffocated.
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