From 2011 to 2023 killed is 406 women and girls in Serbia, data from the "Femicide Memorial", which he presented today Autonomous Women's Center.
"It turns out that it is for woman the most unsafe place is her home, because the data show that more than half of the women were killed in the house or apartment where they lived with their partner or another person who killed them," said Vanja Macanović from the Autonomous Women's Center.
"Femicide Memorial"
The memorial processes 406 cases of femicide, of which 391 were women and 15 were girls. As Macanović explained, certain cases were omitted, as well as cases of female suicides, which occurred as a result of violence.
"The idea was to gather data on femicide in Serbia in one place, but also to remember women who were killed in family-partner and sexual violence", emphasized Vanja Macanović from that organization.
According to her, through that database, it is possible to search by various filters, so that anyone who wants to find information about cases of femicide can simply do so through the "Femicide Memorial" platform.
Also, Macanović explained, the data can be downloaded in the form of an excel table or individual data according to filters. She presented data showing that most women are killed in July - as much as 12,32 percent.
Partner violence is the most prevalent
When it comes to the age of women, the largest number of victims were between 46 and 55 years old, 88 of them, or 21,67 percent. The highest number of femicides was recorded in Belgrade - 80, i.e. 19,7 percent, followed by Juznobački district - 35, i.e. 8,62 percent.
More than half of the women were killed in partner violence, of which 34,24 were married and 17,73 percent were in a partnership. 39,8 percent of women were killed in another family relationship, of which the son was the killer in most cases. Ex-partners are the killers in 15,76 percent of cases.
Rapists, acquaintances, stalkers and users of prostitution services are the perpetrators of femicide in 2,47 percent of the examined cases.
The most common means of murder is a cold weapon (knife, scalpel, axe, hatchet or other sharp objects) in 38 percent of cases. Firearms are in second place in 31,46 percent of cases. This is followed by murder by beating and throwing from a height in 21,29 percent of cases, as well as strangulation in 6,84 percent of cases.
Macanović assessed that women who live in violence have stopped trusting institutions and that is why they do not report violence. However, she pointed out that, regardless of what the public opinion is about reporting violence, mostly the lives of women who reported violence were saved.
