Law classifies femicide – the homicide of a girl motivated by gender – as a separate crime to murder.
Italy’s decrease home on Tuesday night voted unanimously to approve a regulation that introduces the crime of femicide to be punished with life in jail.
The government-sponsored invoice, which had cross-party help, was already handed by the senate in July and can enter into regulation after being signed into impact by the nation’s president.
The invoice introduces a brand new article into Italy’s prison code which supplies for a life sentence for anybody who kills a girl as an act of hatred, discrimination, abuse, or management, to restrict her freedom, or in relation to her refusal to ascertain or preserve an emotional relationship.
Italian regulation already supplies for a selected aggravating circumstance for many killings that qualify as femicide, however not as a separate crime.
In a symbolic transfer, lawmakers accepted the invoice on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence in opposition to Women.
The regulation comes after Italy was shocked by a string of high-profile femicides in recent times together with the homicide of Giulia Cecchettin by her former boyfriend two years in the past.
Prime minister Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday underlined the steps taken by her authorities, together with the doubling of funding for anti-violence shelters for ladies, selling the 1522 emergency helpline and implementing consciousness campaigns.
“These are concrete steps ahead, however we gained’t cease right here. We should proceed to do way more, day-after-day” – Meloni wrote on X – “To shield, to forestall, to help. To construct an Italy through which no lady ought to ever really feel alone, threatened or not believed.”
Photo Roma Capitale: ‘No Violence, Only Love’ on the Spanish Steps on Tuesday 25 November 2025.
