Femicide, draft bill: life imprisonment for acts of discrimination or hatred

Rome, March 7 (LaPresse) – “Anyone who causes the death of a woman when the act is committed as an act of discrimination or hatred towards the offended person because she is a woman or to repress the exercise of her rights or freedoms or, in any case, the expression of her personality, shall be punished with life imprisonment. Except in the cases referred to in the first sentence, Article 575 of the Penal Code shall apply, providing for a sentence of not less than twenty-one years. This is what we read in the draft bill that introduces the crime of Femicide and that will be on the table of the Council of Ministers today.