In the space of a few days, two new murders of women shook France.
One in Gironde, where a woman was slaughtered by her ex-companion, the other in the Somme, in Amiens, where the victim was stabbed in the temple, also by her ex-spouse.
Since the beginning of 2023, 26 women have already been killed by their companion or ex-companion.
In 2021, the number of murders of women increased by 20% in France compared to the previous year, with 122 victims against 102.
Guest of BFMTV on Saturday evening March 4, the spokesperson for the association “
Osez le féminisme
”, Violaine de Filippis, identifies a common motive for these murders: “
Our Judeo-Christian culture
”.
“
We cannot qualify them as miscellaneous facts, they are systemic facts, that is to say facts that our society generates.
I would also remind you that it is our Judeo-Christian culture that engenders it
, ”explained the activist.
And to add: "
Despite what the extreme right sometimes tries to make believe, it is not due to immigration, it is our culture, our values, our education, the one we give to our children, who, in a continuum of violence, create these tragedies
".
Europe, the safest continent for women
This anathema, thrown without any concrete argument, is largely contradicted by the figures.
If “
our Judeo-Christian culture
” was indeed at the origin of “
feminicides
”, Europe, the cradle of this culture, would be the least safe continent for women.
However, a UN study, based on figures for 2017, shows that it is quite the opposite.
According to the document, Asia topped the list of "
feminicides
" that year, with 20,000 women murdered.
Africa (19,000), the Americas (8,000), Europe (3,000) and Oceania (300) followed.
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The rate of spousal and family homicides per 100,000 women is even more telling (and more precise).
Africa then becomes the region where women are most at risk of being killed by an intimate partner or a family member (3.1 per 100,000).
Europe is the continent where the risk is lowest (0.7), well after the American continent (1.6), Oceania (1.3) or Asia (0 ,9).
In Asia, China and India also have the sad reputation of being countries where many murders of little girls are committed at birth.
In Africa, Senegal is considered the most dangerous country for women with a rate of 87% of victims.
And it is Latin America that holds the unfortunate "
record
" of "
feminicides
", with more than 26,200 women killed in Mexico between 2000 and 2014, according to the UN report.