La Russa places a wreath on Anastasiia Alashri’s door: “The feminicide in Fano is emblematic. Escape from war and die at the hands of those who promised love”

The president of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa, went to Fano today to remember Anastasiia Alashri, the young Ukrainian refugee killed by her ex-husband of Egyptian nationality on 13 November. After the joint meeting, La Russa hugged Anastasia’s mother tightly, who was holding a rosary in her hand, and placed a bunch of red roses in front of the door of the house where the woman lived. A minute of silence and then, after thanking everyone present, he left for the capital.

«Escaping from a war and finding death at the hands of someone who promised her love is the most emblematic thing there can be, and this is why, among the many sufferings that feminicide has caused, I thought it was the right thing to come and pay tribute to Anastasiia and her family», declared the president of the Senate as soon as he arrived in Fano. «I also had the opportunity to say yesterday, in the ceremony of the senatorial commission, that the question of feminicide cannot be seen, and those who see it are mistaken, as something that concerns women. If anything, it concerns above all men – reiterated La Russa–, because it is men who have to face and understand that the respect, this is the fundamental term, which one owes to other people, if possible, must be even greater towards the other half of the sky”.

As for the establishment of a bicameral commission on violence against women and feminicides, it will serve above all for “knowledge because laws are not enough to combat these phenomena, which in any case are useful, the efficiency of the police force is not enough, which I thank”, he continued the president of the Senate. «I expect that from the knowledge of the phenomenon, the statistics and so on – he explained -, the possibility arises of fighting it better. For example, we know how many feminicides there are, because when a woman dies, if she is killed for reasons that are related to what we call femicide, she makes statistics, but how many other crimes are committed for the same reason and we don’t know. There is a libel trial – he added -, but it doesn’t say whether it is a libel between two motorists who defame each other at the end of a dispute or if instead it is a libel against a woman because she is a woman. It doesn’t say if damage to a car is done by a hooligan or is done by a disappointed lover, husband, boyfriend or ex. So even the numbers, even the statistics can be used to understand the dimension of the phenomenon». «Of course – he added – it is not only this that the commission will do. He will try to understand the reasons and also the remedies ». And the work of the body “will be important precisely because it is bicameral”.