Italy has clocked up two more
femicides after two women were allegedly killed by their
husbands on Tuesday.
A 66-year-old woman of Indian origin was reportedly beaten to
death by her husband with a cricket bat in the Emilia Romagna
town of Salsomaggiore Terme near Parma and a 42-year-old woman
was allegedly stabbed to death by her husband in front of one of
their children in Andria in Puglia.
In the first case, the man, also of Indian origin, was
apprehended by an off-duty Carabinieri police officer who
intervened after hearing the woman's shouts.
In the second, the man reportedly subsequently called the
Carabinieri police and confessed.
The new femicides come against a backdrop of ongoing public
anger and dismay at the brutal murder of 22-year-old Giulia
Cecchettin by her 21-year-old former boyfriend Filippo Turetta
on November 11.
The femicide grabbed media headlines and led to a new level of
awareness of the need to address the problem of gender-based
violence in Italy.
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