Government accused of remaining ‘scandalously’ silent on grim start to the year for women and girls
A woman walks past an anti-femicide poster in Paris, There were at least 113 femicides last year in France, an increase on the 102 recorded in 2020.A woman walks past an anti-femicide poster in Paris, There were at least 113 femicides last year in France, an increase on the 102 recorded in 2020.Last modified on Mon 3 Jan 2022 18.
In eastern France, police discovered the body of a 56-year-old woman with a knife in her chest after neighbours at Meurthe-et-Moselle reported a violent dispute. The victim’s husband was questioned by police and was due to appear before a judge on Monday. The mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, said he was devastated by the alleged killing and described it as a “horror”.accused the French government of remaining “scandalously” silent on the grim start to the year for women. It said an estimated 220,000 women reported conjugal violence every year, but judges had ordered the use of electronic bracelets in only 379 cases., told France Info radio: “These femicides are not isolated cases. They’re not the occasional news story.
“No, these’s aren’t ‘family dramas’ or ‘separation dramas’ or ‘crimes of passion’; they are conjugal killings carried out by frustrated men who think they have the right to kill … who because of the patriarchal education given to men think they possess their women and children and can do with their lives as they wish,” the association added.
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