“Nothing is more educational,” Meloni told journalist Bruno Vespa in an interview at the forum ‘Italy to Come’ at Masseria Li Reni.
On Wednesday, the government approved a bill clamping down on gender-based after a recent string of headline-grabbing femicides in Italy.
The package includes new restraining orders and heightened surveillance on men guilty of domestic violence and it also boosts the emergency gender violence hotline.
The measures aim to interrupt the cycle of violence” and to “act promptly and effectively”, according to Family and Equal Opportunities Minister Eugenia Roccella.
According to official figures, femicides are up significantly this year while the overall homicide rate has dropped.
Last month in Rome a woman police officer was shot dead by a colleague she had had a relationship with, after which he shot himself, and a man killed his seven-month pregnant partner near Milan after she objected to his affair with another woman.
There were emotional scenes on Sunday at the funeral of Giulia Tramontano, the 29-year-old seven-month pregnant woman murdered by 30-year-old boyfriend, Alessandro Impagnatiello, near Milan on May 27 in a case that shocked Italy.
Tramontano suffered 37 stab wounds including two fatal strikes to the neck, an autopsy revealed on Friday.
Impagnatiello has confessed to the murder.
The private funeral took place in Sant’Antimo, a town in the province of Naples where she was born and where her parents live.
White balloons were let off as part of the farewell to the young victim.
