Italy has been shocked by a string of recent cases, culminating in the murder of a seven-month pregnant young woman by her boyfriend this week.
A 30-year-old man confessed to the murder after unsuccessfully trying to burn her body to conceal the evidence, sources said last week.
During the confession, the man, Alessandro Impagnatiello, told Carabinieri police where he had hidden the body of 29-year-old Giulia Tramontano – behind the garage of the building the couple lived in in Senago, in the province of Milan – the sources said.
Impagnatiello, a barman at a luxury hotel in Milan, had reported Tramontano missing last weekend.
He is thought to have murdered her after she found out he was having an affair.
It is the latest in a long series of femicides in Italy and Roccella said a strong response is in the pipeline.
“... we will bring to the next Council of Ministers, or at the latest to the following one, the package of norms on which as Ministry of Equal Opportunities we are working together with the Ministries of the Interior and Justice, for a first boost to the (existing) anti-violence norms,” she said.
“The law alone is not enough, without a cultural change, but it can do a lot and making it as effective as possible is a categorical imperative for which we feel all the responsibility.”
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