(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 24 - ISTAT said Thursday that 139 people
were murdered in the domestic context in Italy last year,
accounting for 45.9% of all homicides.
The national statistics agency said that women were the victims
in 100 of those cases.
It added that 58.8% of the murdered women were killed by their
partners or their ex partners, up from 57.8% in 2020 but down
from 61.3% in 2019. (ANSA).
Almost half of murders 'in-family', most victims women
ISTAT says women often killed by partner or ex