Femicides on the rise. The last case comes from Palermo. The lifeless body of Piera Naples, 32, a neo-melodic singer, was found in the bathroom of the apartment in the Cruillas neighborhood. It was her husband, Salvatore Baglione, 37, who showed up at the Carabinieri station in Passo di Rigano and confessed. A month ago the woman Piera had called the police for the violence and attacks suffered by her husband. According to the father, she was still at home with the man for her three young children.
Last week, the 17-year-old’s funeral Roberta Sirigusa. “We are here, shocked. Without words. In front of Roberta’s body. Battered body. Sacrificed. Life that has been stolen from us. Because? Once again, a cry rings out: why? Why this unspeakable torment inflicted on dear parents Iana and Filippo, on brother Dario, on family members, on friends, on the whole city? A life destroyed and stolen too soon, in an extremely cruel way, ”said the archbishop of Palermo, Corrado Lorefice, in his homily.
Roberta was found dead in a ravine in Monte San Calogero, on the morning of January 24th. She had spent the evening at a party with her fiancé, Pietro Morreale, 19, accused of voluntary murder and corpse concealment. According to the autopsy she was first stunned with a blow to the head and then set on fire while she was still alive.
The case of Ilenia Fabbri, the 46-year-old found slaughtered in her home in Faenza, near Ravenna. Sonia Di Maggio, 29, was killed on the evening of February 1, 2021 in Minervino di Lecce. She was on the street with her current boyfriend when she was attacked by ex-partner Salvatore Carfora, 39, who had already threatened her in the past.
There are 7 femicides since the beginning of 2021, more than one a week. A figure that joins that of 2020 on which the long months of the lockdown weigh. According to Istata data, in the first 6 months of 2020, femicides were 45% of the total homicides, compared to 35% in the first six months of 2019. This percentage rose to 50% during the months of March and April. Murders decreased and murders increased in percentage.
Most of the crimes and violence, 90%, took place within the home at the hands of partners and cohabitants. Among the partners, in 70% of cases the killer is the husband, while among the ex cohabitants and ex-boyfriends prevail. The report of the Criminal Analysis Service of the Police confirms these data: female victims went from 111 in 2019 to 112 in 2020, women killed in the family environment rose from 94 in 2019 to 98 last year.

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