Mobilizations, marches, speeches are planned today, throughout Italy, to send a resounding message, on the international day to combat violence against women.

Marches have been organized from Parma to Sicily, while the largest mobilization will take place this afternoon, in the Italian capital, in the former Roman racecourse of the Circo Massimo. Tens of thousands of women will cry “no more femicides”, after the huge wave of emotion and anger caused by the murder of twenty-two-year-old Julia Cechetin by her peer, ex-fiancé, Filippo Tourretta.

THE Tourette’s he was arrested in Germany and this morning, he was extradited to Italy, on a plane that landed in Venice. He murdered the unfortunate girl because he himself did not accept their separation and, according to testimonies, he was also jealous of her brilliant university career. He is expected to stand trial for kidnapping and premeditated murder.

What is being underlined, these days in Italy, is that a whole way of thinking must be changed, that they must become definitively a thing of the past, thanks to schools, new intra-family balances and the contribution of the media, highly erroneous logics of the past, which allow even for some men to believe that their partner, sister or wife is their property and object.

“Men and women meet to build a better humanity, through diversity and solidarity, with the awareness that there can be no love without respect, without accepting the freedom of the other”, emphasized the Italian president of the republic, Sergio Mattarella.

“When a woman is murdered, when the thread of a girl’s life is cut or words of humiliation are used, in the family, in the workplace, in schools, we feel that behind all this is the failure of a society, which fails to promote values of real equality between men and women,” added Sergio Mattarella.