Murderous violence against women
or femicide was up in 2018 with 142 women killed, according to
the 2019 report on femicide and gender violence in Italy from
the Eures think tank.
The total was 0.7% up on 2017, the report said.
Some 119 of the femicides were in the family home, a rise of
6.3%.
Never has the total of women victims of murder been higher,
at 40.3%, the report said.
Jealousy and a sense of possession are still the most common
motives, accounting for 32.8% of cases.
Also on the rise were sexual violence (+5.4%), stalking
(+4.4%) and domestic abuse (+11.7% in 2018).
Successive Italian governments have launched campaigns
against femicide.
But the phenomenon appears to be intractable.
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