Rome Sep 17 (IANS/AKI) Premier Giuseppe Conte on Monday vowed to ensure women receive respect in Italy after a security guard killed his poetess wife and then committed suicide because she wanted to end their marriage.
"Angela Ferrara won t write any more stories for children or poems " Conte wrote on Facebook after the 30-year-old woman was shot dead Saturday outside her son s primary school in the town of Cersosimo in the southern Basilicata region.
"The little boy had just gone into school - the place that teaches dialogue and nurtures culture. He could not have imagined that he would never hug his parents again " Conte went on.
"Schools should foster individual growth and cultural development. They are places to exchange ideas and learn values including respect for others places to build a better country - where women are respected " he wrote.
"I intend to work for this goal - as a man and as Italy s Prime Minister " Conte s post said.
A total of 44 women were murdered in Italy between January and June this year by their partners or ex-partners - a 30 percent increase on the same period of 2017 according to the Sos Stalking association.

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