In Italy, which has been rocked by the murder of a 22-year-old university student allegedly by her ex-boyfriend, about 50,000 people demonstrated in Rome, where the Colosseum was to be lit red, according to the AGI news agency. Later on Saturday.
The country has been horrified by the case of Giulia Cecchini, who went missing for a week as she was about to receive her degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Padua.
Her body was eventually found in a drain about 120 kilometers (75 mi) north of Venice and her former boyfriend, 22-year-old Filippo Turretta, was arrested in Germany.
Luisa Loduce said, “This year… has a particularly important meaning for us… for those in this country who care about the rights, claims and liberation of all women, yet another femicide, Giulia After the murder of Sechtin.” A 22 year old librarian.
According to the Interior Ministry, in the year to November 12, there have been 102 cases of murder of female victims in Italy, 82 of which are by family members or current or former partners.
In Turkey, about 500 women gathered in the Sisli district of Istanbul as riot police waved banners that read, “We will not be silent” and “Women are united and fighting against male-state violence.”
Protestors also took to the streets in Ankara.