Femicides, 119 in 2021 alone: 91% of the victims of partners or ex are women
In the last four years, one has been registered in Italy decrease in voluntary homicides (from 359 in 2018 to 302 in 2021) and female victims (-16%) but “after the evident drop in the number of women killed in 2019 (109 from 141 in 2018), a turnaroundwith a increase both in 2020 (117) than in 2021 (119) “.
This is what emerges from the report produced by Criminal Analysis Service of the Central Directorate of the Criminal Police on the occasion of the International Women’s Rights Day. Even in the family / emotional sphere – with an equal number of murders in 2021 compared to the previous year (147) – there was a slight increase in female victims (from 101 in 2020 to 103 in 2021). On the total of people killed by partner or former partnerin 2021 the 91% are female. The contrast action shows a progressive growth in the percentage of cases discovered, up to 92% in 2020.
Deepening the exam for 2021 onlyit appears that the women victims of homicide make up 39% of the total; of these, the 93% were of age and the82% Italian. In the family / affective context, the percentage of female victims stands at 70% of cases (103 out of 147). Always considering only the women killed in the family / emotional sphereI’m victims of partners or former partners in 68% of cases (70 out of 103). In the other cases they are mainly killed by parents or children (21%), while the case of murders committed by another relative is residual (11%).
Finally, with reference to the modus operandi, it is revealed in the voluntary murders of women in the family / affective context prevalent use of improper weapons and / or sidearms, which occurs in 56 cases; 23 were used Weapons. The modalities of asphyxiation / suffocation / strangulation (14 murders), injuries or beatings (6 events) and poisoning in 4 cases.
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