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They also criticised the current government, presided over for the first time in history by a woman, the far-right Giorgia Meloni, which the day before had approved a bill to introduce the crime of 'femicide', homicides against women for misogyny, punishable by life imprisonment.

The group considers it a "propagandistic" measure because it believes that the Government limits itself to "multiplying crimes" so as not to comply with a "serious institutional work that deconstructs the mechanisms that reproduce violence" and discrimination.

  The law has caused some division between those who see it as an important precedent to alleviate the scourge of sexist violence and those who warn that it is not very specific and, therefore, inapplicable.

The newspaper 'La Repubblica' published this Saturday the opinion of several experts, such as Judge Paola Di Nicola Travaglini, who celebrates this "historic decision" because killing a woman for machismo will become an autonomous crime and not just an aggravating circumstance as it has been until now, or the law professor Emanuele Corn, who believes that it is "a great pyramid on a base of sand" due to its lack of specificity.

The demonstrations and rallies on March 8 will be replicated in the main Italian cities, such as Turin, Milan, Bologna (north), Naples or Palermo (south), as well as Rome, in whose streets the yellow flowers of the mimosa or acacia, symbol of this day of vindication for women, are traditionally distributed.

The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, currently on an official trip to Japan, sent a message to ask politics and the rest of the authorities for "attention to deal with the shameful and unacceptable scourge of violence against women".

The head of state also urged to "continue with an educational action to promote an egalitarian affective culture without stereotypes, prejudices and consolidated habits among the younger generations".

The Minister for Family, Birth and Equality, Eugenia Roccella, when illustrating the aforementioned bill, denounced an "absolutely evident asymmetry" between the data on murders of women by men and those of men perpetrated by women.

According to data from the Ministry of the Interior, of the 321 voluntary homicides committed in Italy throughout 2024, a total of 99 were victims of women in the family or affective sphere and 61 were murdered by their partner or ex-partner. The Observatory of 'Non Una di meno' puts the number of femicides in 2023 at 104 and 97 in 2024.