In the first six months of 2022, over 40 women were killed at the hands of a man : a husband, a partner or an ex. The last of the long list were Donatella Miccoli , stabbed by her husband Matteo Verdesca who then took his own life in the Lecce area; Gabriela Serrano and Lidia Miljkovic , killed a few hours later by the former Zlatan Vasiljevic in the Vicenza area. Romina De Cesare , strangled and ended up with some stab wounds on a beach in Sabaudia, also from the former Pietro Ialongo.
An emergency, we read on the pages of the dictionary, is an "unforeseen circumstance". But there is very little unexpected in femicides . Indeed, the script is almost always, dramatically, the same: she unilaterally decides to leave her partner. He does not accept his freedom , his right, to abandon him. And he kills her , at the height of a period of harassment, violence and persecution.
Femicide , said the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, is " a serious violation of human rights ." Because it affects women as women, and deeply undermines the free development and progress of a country. knives are just the tip of the iceberg , the tragic conclusion of a long process that finds its roots in the toxic culture of domination by man over woman .
In his 40-year career as a psychiatrist, sociologist, educator and essayist, Paolo Crepet has seen with his own eyes many situations of abuse exchanged for love not only by the torturers, but by the victims themselves. It is precisely on them that we must first of all work, he explains to L'Unione Sarda. He will also talk about this in Castelsardo on July 27th and in Alghero on July 28th, presenting his latest book “Lessons of dreams”, published by Mondadori.
