Over the past twelve months is 1 million 150 thousand women who have suffered violence
or 5.4% of women aged 16 to 70 years. In particular
2.7% of women have suffered physical violence, sexual violence 3.5% and 0.3% of rapes or attempted rapes
. These are pieces of data reported in the crime report from the Ministry of the Interior presented recently by the Interior Ministry. In 62.4% of
cases to commit physical violence is the partner. And the percentage increases in the case of rapes or sexual violence. "I'm absolutely shocked by the data on violence against women," Interior Minister Giuliano Amato admits presentation of the report on crime in Italy. What strikes the head of the Interior Ministry, about male violence, is the absolute "unilateral": "we are talking about crimes ever committed against boys." A horror "alien to the civilization of my country": the relative majority of murders takes place in the family, nearly seven million women are victims of physical and sexual violence during their lifetime, half a million have suffered rape and attempted rape 703mila.
are always women to be victims, and the weaker sex which is remembered for having to stay one step lower than the male. Pushing, shoving, grabbing, twisting an arm or pull your hair are the gestures of affection reserved for the majority of victims of physical violence up to the murder itself. It 's the story of Hina Saleem, a Pakistani 20-year slaughtered and buried in the garden of the house, Sarezzo, Brescia, from the males of his family is the story of Jennifer Zacconi, the Venetian twenty nine months pregnant killed man with whom he was having an affair and that would be the father of her baby to be born about 15 days later (another victim innocent), is the story of Barbara Cicioni, 33 years eight months pregnant, was killed in his home in Compignano, presumably by her husband. Women who are exploited, used, reduced to cannon fodder. Women still subdued, yet small object of fun for a world made for men.