«My daughter is a good girl, extraordinary, polite, studious and dedicated to study and work. She had many dreams and projects but now she no longer has them.» Franco Isceri uses the present tense to describe his daughter Lorena, the woman locked in the trunk of a car and then thrown like an object from a viaduct on the A1 by her ex Federico Vella. He does so in a heartbreaking but clear appeal to politics, so that «it is united» in the fight against male violence against women. An appeal answered by many from the majority and the opposition, from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to the PD secretary Elly Schlein. Further isolating the position of General Roberto Vannacci, who on the sidelines of the Cernobbio Forum continued to criticize the crime of femicide.
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Clear is the request of this father destroyed by pain: «Work in the schools, strengthen the anti-violence centers and the regulatory tools to take unanimous measures so that it never happens again. I ask you with all my heart».
Meloni answers the appeal
The response of Giorgia Meloni, who already on Friday, September 4 at the Fdi party in Bari for the Government’s longevity record had remembered Lorena, does not take long. The Prime Minister first claims the work done in this legislature «also thanks to the contribution and work of all the political forces present in Parliament»: «We have doubled the resources for anti-violence centers and shelters, also averting the possibility that many of these structures could close. We have made the freedom income structural and strengthened it, reinforced a fundamental tool like the “Red Code”, introduced femicide as an autonomous crime among the first in Europe».
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The Prime Minister’s promise
But Meloni admits that it is not enough, acknowledges that «we all must continue to look for solutions, to improve what already exists, to do everything possible to intervene before it is too late». Then the promise: «We will continue to do our part, to the end. In the name of Lorena and all the victims. In the name of their families. In the name of a society that protects women and their freedom». A freedom that «in Italy is not negotiable», she had shouted in Bari amid applause, in clear distant polemic with Vannacci.
Tajani: «A culture respectful of women is needed»
The deputy prime ministers also take a stand. With some distinctions. «We are aware of the immensity of the abomination behind every story of femicide, a crime that for the first time was introduced precisely in this legislature», says the leader of Forza Italia, Antonio Tajani. Who, on behalf of his party, labels as totally distorted the idea of «love as possession» and agrees that the road is still long «to spread a culture that is truly respectful of women and that conveys awareness of the horror of a vision that inevitably leads to violence».
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