There have been 91 victims of
femicide in the first 10 months of 2020, Eures said Tuesday,
compared to 99 in the same period last year.
This year's total still equates to a woman killed every three
days in Italy, the research agency said.
Female victims of common crime fell from 14 last year to just
three in January-October this year, while the number of family
femicides was substantially steady in both time periods, down
from 85 to 81, and inside this, the number of femicides in a
couple was steady at 56, while the number of women killed by
neighbours rose from zero to four.
Eures said the COVID lockdown had been an "accelerator" of
femicides, with domestic killings accounting for 80.8% of the
total in the three-month lockdown earlier this year.
Femicide-suicides almost doubled between the two years from 23%
of all femicides last year to 43.1% in the first 10 months of
2020, Eures said.
Some 3,344 women have been murdered in Italy since 200, the
femicide report said, accounting for 30% of the 11,133 overall
murders in the country in that time.
Women killed by partners or exes accounted for 66.2% of domestic
femicides and 61.5% of all women murdered, Eures said.
The killers are 94% male.
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