Italy’s parliament has approved a law that introduces femicide into the country’s criminal law and punishes it with life in prison.

Italy’s parliament on Tuesday approved a law that introduces femicide into the country’s criminal law and punishes it with life in prison.

The vote coincided with the international day for the elimination of violence against women, a day designated by the U.N. General Assembly.

The law won bipartisan support from the center-right majority and the center-left opposition in the final vote in the Lower Chamber, passing with 237 votes in favor.

The law, backed by the conservative government of Premier Giorgia Meloni, comes in response to a series of killings and other violence targeting women in Italy. It includes stronger measures against gender-based crimes including stalking and revenge porn.

  • DomeGuy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    3 hours ago

    Oh, you’ve read the law in question. Great! I can’t read Italian, and the linked article didnt have a statement of what the law actually said.

    Does the law specify “woman” as a protected class or “gender”?

    With the enactment of this law, is a man who murders a woman for the covered motivation treated differently than a woman who murders a man with the equivalent malice? What’s the actual difference?

    • ISuperabound@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      3 hours ago

      You could also read the law if you used the internet, instead of writing a half-cocked message to me. I know you have it.

      The difference is culpability. We don’t treat the murder of an infant, assisting a suicide, or indirect killing the same way as a “standard” murder charge…and femicide is no different. It’s just another tool in the toolbox so justice can be more accurately delivered.

      • DomeGuy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        We don’t define in law the assisted suicide of a white cis man as categorically less severe than the assisted suicide of a black genderqueer female.

        Are you familiar with the US Supreme Court case Moritz v. Commissioner (which my wife brought to my attention after she saw the movie.)?

        An important advance in feminist law was literally about a man who wanted a tax deduction but was denied because the deduction was meant for women.

      • DomeGuy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        So, what’s the link to this english-language translation of the law in question?

        Here’s an unattributed quote presumably from such from a BBC article:

        The Italian law will apply to murders which are “an act of hatred, discrimination, domination, control, or subjugation of a woman as a woman”, or that occur when she breaks off a relationship or to “limit her individual freedoms.”

        https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dzp050yn2o

        As described in the above quote, it seems exactly as sexist as I presumed – special protection in the law for cis women, which categorically excludes cis men, trans men, and trans women from its protection.

        Do you have a contradictory summary or, ideally, a link to the actual text and a professional translation?

        • ISuperabound@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          31 minutes ago

          You didn’t understand the link you posted to me correctly and I’d expect you’d misunderstand anything I pasted to you as well.

          Nowhere in that quote does it mention the gender or orientation of the perpetrator. You seem to fundamentally project your own biases.