‘It has to be recognised as a term and as a crime’, says government opposition, after unprecedented number of women murdered by partners
about sexual abuse of women in the arts and sports worlds. The revelations have been widely seen as a turning point for a society that remains one of Europe’s most socially conservative.a public campaign urging victims of domestic and gender-based violence to speak out. It also established a 24-hour helpline and is set to expand a network of counselling centres.
Changes to the penal code more recently have ensured that the severest penalties will be meted out to those found guilty of murdering women, with perpetrators no longer able to cite extenuating circumstances in the hope of receiving a lighter sentence if the act is deemed a “crime of passion”. The justice ministry is also poised to overhaul domestic violence legislation drafted more than a decade ago.
The country’s gender equality minister, Maria Syrengela, described the measures as unprecedented. “There’ll be no ability for men to claim they acted in the heat of the moment, that it was a crime of passion,” she told the Guardian., we will of course advise that femicide is included,” she said. “It’s about time.”had been able to claim “provocation”, or claim that it was a crime of passion, when the murders amounted to the ultimate exercise of power over women.
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