The government on Wednesday night
approved a bill clamping down on gender violence after a recent
string of headline-grabbing of femicides in Italy.
Late last month a man killed his seven-month pregnant girlfriend
near Milan after she objected to his affair with another woman,
while in Rome a woman police officer was shot dead by a
colleague she had had a relationship with, after which he shot
himself.
According to official figures, femicides are up significantly
this year while the overall homicide rate has dropped.
Cabinet approved a bill with a package of measures whose thurst,
as Family and Equal Opportunities Minister Eugenia Roccella
explained, is prevention "to interrupt the cycle of violence"
and to "act promptly and effectively", so much so that there
will be a request to parliament for an urgent reading of the
bill.
The package includes new restraining orders and heightened
surveillance on men guilty of domestic violence, among other
things.
It also boosts the emergency gender violence hotline.
The house in Senago, near Milan, where on Saturday 27 May,
Alessandro Impagnatiello stabbed to death Giulia Tramontana, his
seven-months-pregnant fiancée, was perfectly tidy and clean, so
much so that the many traces found during the inspection Tuesday
were identified thanks to luminol, police said Wednesday.
The case is continuing to claim headlines as further grisly and
shocking details emerge.
Impagnatiello twice tried to dispose of the body by burning it
but ended up storing it in his house, all the while sending
apparently urgent texts asking her to get in touch with him.
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