Giada Zanola, Veltri (D.i.Re): “Wrong narrative, so we won’t be able to fight feminicide”

The president said: "The social and political context we live in fuels this justifying reading of the feminicide phenomenon which seeks the reasons"

ROME –  “He lost his mind over the canceled wedding”, “he was afraid of never seeing his son again”. There are headlines like this from many national newspapers on the death of Giada Zanola, the 34-year-old thrown from the A4 overpass by her partner Andrea Favero in Padua, mowed down by a lorry.

In the very first moments it might have seemed like a suicide but the man’s first statements immediately led the investigators to a turning point in the case. Once again, however,the exhibition demonstrates a merciless narrative of feminicide that does not spare a sort of indulgent look at that man who should be called a murderer and who instead becomes the one who has the black-out, who loses his mind for disappointment in love, or the loving father who fears not seeing his son. “We take a step back on what is the correct narrative of a femicide and male violence against women. The social and political context we live in fuels this justifiable reading of the feminicide phenomenon which seeks to find situations that precede the phenomenon, in search some whys.” The president of the D.i.Re cav network Antonella Veltri explains this to Dire, who identifies in this attitude the construction of that image of the “poor man who killed”, and warns: “If the phenomenon is not communicated correctly it means that the country is backwards and that there are steps backwards on the correct narrative of feminicideWe are in a dark moment.”

We are talking about information professionals who in fact ‘follow’ cultural stereotypes: “Even the advanced part of society that Gramsci defined as ‘avant-garde’ – underlines Veltri – experiences backwardness. Either the country wakes up or they will pay more and more the most exposed and weak groups So we won’t be able to fight femicide“. Since the beginning of the year, 15 women have been killed by their partners and exes, and three minors. The theme of male violence against women, when it does not become feminicide, often translates, it is worth remembering, into a shadow of violence against minors: children are often forced to see these mistreating fathers, perhaps risking their lives as happened to the little boy 7-year-old killed in 2022 by his father, Davide Paitoni, who the little boy was forced to meet by order of the Court.