Vannacci: ‘Femicide doesn’t exist.’ Giulia Bongiorno’s response: ‘A longing for honour killings?’
The leader of Futuro Nazionale: in favour of the EU and NATO, but without being subservient
by the Rome Editorial Staff
‘Femicide is murder like any other; men and women are equal, there is no need to protect one group over another, and so everyone must be subject to the same rules. A crime is not more or less serious based on the gender, skin colour or religion of the perpetrator or the victim: that is true equality.”
This was stated by the leader of Futuro Nazionale, Roberto Vannacci, on the sidelines of his party’s constituent assembly in Rome. The MEP, elected with the Lega, returned to a topic he had already raised in the past when he said that femicide is a ‘bulwark of the right’ that has been ‘shattered’.
‘A job is earned on the basis of merit, not on the basis of what one has in one’s underwear; that is equality. Why don’t we introduce gender quotas for blacksmiths or bricklayers, yet we do so for politicians or executives? Just as there is violence against women, there is violence against the elderly, yet we don’t have a term like ‘geronticide’. I am opposed to femicide; it is murder like any other,” added the founder of Futuro Nazionale.
“The Futuro Nazionale programme,” said Vannacci, “does not take a black-and-white view but is based on Italia’s national interests. Therefore, as a founding member of the European Community and a participant in international organisations, Italia must continue to participate, but in a way that benefits it rather than leaving it in a subordinate position. So yes to Europe, but rejecting directives and regulations that make us subordinate. Yes to NATO, but reaping the benefits – and I would say a ‘Turkish-style’ approach to NATO, which is quite different from that of other countries.”
Bongiorno responds to Vannacci on femicide
‘The point is not that the death of a woman “weighs” more heavily than that of a man, but the gravity of the impulse that leads one to kill a woman out of hatred or contempt, regarding her as an inferior being. That is why the criticism levelled by the leader of Futuro Nazionale is completely misleading. I hope there is no nostalgia for the offence that existed until 1981, when mitigating circumstances were granted to those who killed a woman in the name of honour.” Thus Giulia Bongiorno, Lega senator and rapporteur for the bill on sexual violence, responds to Roberto Vannacci’s comments on femicide.
