A 43-year-old woman was shot dead by her husband at a tavern in Larissa where she worked. A woman was killed near Athens four days ago, AFP reported.
The new murder has come as a shock in the country, where seven murders of women have been committed since the beginning of the year.
Armed with a pistol, the 54-year-old husband entered the tavern and shot his wife eight times, who was killed on the spot, Greek media reported. The man was detained immediately, ANA-MPA agency reported.
On Friday, a 31-year-old woman was stabbed and killed in Daphne, near Athens, by her 40-year-old husband, who later turned himself in to police.
Since the beginning of the year, seven murders of women have been registered in Greece, indicating an increase in domestic violence in the country. In Greece, “murder of a woman” does not appear in the penal code. Domestic violence in the country increased by 4% in 2020 compared to 2019.
During the first lockdown, calls to a telephone line set up to support women victims of violence increased by 230%.
“The killing of women is the tip of the iceberg of domestic violence,” Maria Stratigaki, a professor of social policy at the Pantheon University in Athens and a specialist in gender equality, said on Sky radio.
The left-wing opposition party SYRIZA has demanded the resignation of Maria Sirengela, chief secretary for gender equality, who said today that the killings of women did not mean an increase and that “Greece is in a better position than Mexico or Venezuela, where the number of murders of women is much higher. “
“Murders of women have existed for years, there is an increase due to lockdown,” Sirengela said, stressing that “women have recently started reporting domestic violence.”
“This is the seventh murder of a woman in seven months, but the government and police continue to take no action and understand that domestic violence is on the rise, especially after months of isolation,” SYRIZA said today.
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