The death of seven month pregnant girl, Giulia Tramontanomoves Italian public opinion and adds to the long list of almost daily black chronicles where the figures show the horror: a woman every three days is killed by gender violence in the country.
This time the victim of this double homicide was Giulia, from 29 yearswho just two months after giving birth was stabbed by her partner, Alessandro Impagnatielloafter discovering the parallel relationship that the man had with a colleague in the luxurious bar “Armani Caffè” in the city of Milanowned by the well-known high fashion designer where the defendant worked as a bartender.
It was Impagnatiello himself who confessed to the murder. The man of 30 yearsadmitted to stabbing the young woman to death, using a homemade knife, after exposing her double life. After the bloody homicide, he tried several times to set the young woman’s corpse on fire with alcohol and gasoline in the bathtub. Finally, she dumped her body in a field in the town of Senagoon the outskirts of the northern city of Milan.
Now, the femicide, accused of aggravated voluntary homicide, non-consensual interruption of pregnancy and concealment of the corpsehe declared from the prison of San Vittore -where he is detained- that, to find peace, the only option is “take one’s life”.
Italian femicide
Beaten, disfigured, burned, beheaded, stabbed, massacred, shot at, drowned are part of the long and tragic list of violent crimes that affects the freedom of women victims of patriarchy reigning in a macho culture of the country’s society in the shape of a boot.
The brutal murder of Giulia, is the number 45 so far this yearis just the latest and dramatic case of femicide that society is forced to witness.
The homicides are mainly partners and ex-partnersauthors of the crimes that are mostly of sexual nature. But also known and familiar for a crime that, submerged for decades in the conspiratorial silence of the macho and patriarchal homerepresents the very concept of oppression and gender discrimination.
Over time, point Vanessa SchenaCoordinator of the national anti-violence and stalking number 1522 that operates throughout the territory, referring to Italian women “have been acquiring a certain awareness since every day we receive around 150 calls for help”, but they recognize that it is still not enough and that a lot of work must be done in the patriarchal culture of the country”.
Through “15 22” you can also chat and speak in 11 languages, dependent on the Association “Differenza Donna” -Different Woman- the service against gender violence and stolker “we also help distribute women in shelters and shelters to get them out of the circle domestic violence when we warn that a woman is in serious danger to her life,” Schena told Financial sphere.
Source: Ambito
