Sarah Rainsford

The investigation into what caused this fire continues.

There is now a small shrine close to the scene with flowers and candles and notes written to the dead from a small community in deep shock.

So it was a bill that was designed to make femicide, so the murder of a woman for being a woman, so very gender-specific femicide.

murder, a standalone crime.

So whilst Italian law and international law has the crime of homicide, from the word for man, femicide is distinctly about the murder of a woman because of her gender, so motivated by her gender.

And this law has very specific parameters.

Essentially, it's about defining a very specific crime, which is murdering a woman and

as an act of control, as an act of domination, as an act of subjugation, and so specifically because she's a woman.

There's been quite a lot of discussion about the issue of gender violence in Italy for some time.

I have to say it's quite interesting.

I'm quite new to Italy.

And I noticed we have the TV on in the office and on the 24-hour news channel here, I kept seeing the word femicide on the screen.

And there was an awful lot in the headlines about the murder of women.

And I started to think that Italy was like an incredibly dangerous place to be as a female because it was so often so prevalent in the headlines.

But it comes from a discussion that's some years old, but I think really caught the national headlines a couple of years ago with one woman.

very high profile murder, which was the murder of a woman, a young student called Julia Cheketin, who was killed almost exactly two years ago by her ex-partner.

So a boy that she had broken up with.

They were both students at university.

He wanted to get back with her.

He was very possessive, very jealous, very persistent.