D.i.Re – Women in Network against Violence welcomes with reservations the approval of the new text of the crime of femicide which includes among the conditions of the crime that the fact is “committed as an act of discrimination or hatred towards the injured party because she is a woman or is a consequence of the latter's refusal to establish or maintain an emotional relationship or to suffer a condition of subjugation or in any case a limitation of her individual freedoms, imposed or demanded by reason of her condition as a woman"

While on the one hand the creation of a specific crime marks an important step for women and recognises the existence of the phenomenon, on the other hand D.i.Re observes that femicide cannot be eradicated solely by creating an ad hoc crime or specific aggravating factors, without radically changing the patriarchal culture of possession and control from which it originates.

"Women need a anti-violence system equipped so that certain events, especially the most dramatic ones, can be to prevent, criminal contexts that recognize the specificity of their experiences and are capable of recognizing and evaluating the risks associated with them" declares the lawyer Marta Buti, national councilor D.i.Re – Donne in Rete contro la violenza. "They are needed ccontexts in which women are not at risk of being re-victimized and that can be considered safe places, to be believed by people free from prejudices and sexist cultural models” Buti continues. “We know that it is not through harsher penalties that we respond to women's interests: it is not the threat of life imprisonment that helps to avoid an increasingly violent reaction by men to the expression of women's freedom.” concludes the councilor.

They serve acoordinated prevention and training actions that they allocate adequate funds (this bill is financially stable) and recognize the experience of the anti-violence centers, involving them in the planning and programming of prevention and counteraction actions.