Some 30% of Italians between the ages of 14 and 21 say jealousy is love, a report out Friday said.
Some 37% said they had suffered violence, and 87% was at the hands of people they knew.
Of those suffering violence, there were peaks among non-binary people (55%) and girls (43%).
Those responsible for the violence are 30% family members, 29.5% friends, and 27.2% partners or ex-partners.
Only 1% of young people turn to Anti-Violence Centers, while 25% do not speak to anyone, said the survey 'Young Voices for Free Relationships', conducted by Differenza Donna among young people between 14 and 21 years old.
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, has admitted his primary motive was jealousy.
Turetta has admitted to stabbing Cecchettin to death at Fossò, near Venice, on November 11, 2023, days before she was due to graduate from Padua University in biomedical engineering, the same course he was on.
The case caused widespread dismay partly because of the brutality of the killing and also because of the young age of the perpetrator and victim.
Prosecutors say Turetta stabbed Cecchettin 75 times.
The Cecchettin family this week unveiled an anti-femicide foundation in her name in a ceremony at the Lower House where Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara caused a stir by saying the patriarchy was a thing of the past and apparently linking a rise in sexual violence to illegal immigration, a statement he later denied having said.
Almost 80% of cases of rape and sexual assault in Italy are carried out by Italians while the remaining 20% is perpetrated by foreigners, according to the latest figures.
photo: Cecchettin and Turetta
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