Rome's Spanish Steps splashed with red paint in protest against femicide

Record ID: 1826955

  • Title: Rome's Spanish Steps splashed with red paint in protest against femicide
  • Date: 26th June 2024
  • Summary: ROME, ITALY ( JUNE 26, 2024) (REUTERS) VIEW OF SPANISH STEPS PEOPLE SEATED ON SPANISH STEPS ACTIVISTS OF 'BRUCIAMO TUTTO'' (LET'S BURN EVERYTHING) MOVEMENT POURING RED PAINT ON SPANISH STEPS VARIOUS OF ACTIVISTS IMPRINTING HANDPRINTS WITH RED PAINT ON STEPS (SOUNDBITE) (Italian) 'BRUCIAMO TUTTO'' (LET'S BURN EVERYTHING) ACTIVIST (NAME UNKNOWN) SAYING (STARTS WITH ACTIVIST
  • Embargoed: 10th July 2024 12:16
  • Keywords: ITALY PROTEST SPANISH STEPS VIOLENCE WOMEN
  • Location: ROME, ITALY
  • City: ROME, ITALY
  • Country: Italy
  • Topics: Europe,Society/Social Issues
  • Reuters ID: LVA001394326062024RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Women's rights activists protested against femicide on Wednesday (June 26) by splashing Rome's famed Spanish Steps with red paint, symbolically representing the blood of victims.
    Members of the movement called "Bruciamo tutto" - Let's burn everything in Italian - climbed one of the city's symbols, poured cans of paint over the steps and made hand prints on them.
    "This is symbolically the blood of all the people who are killed," said one of the activist involved in the protest before being taken away by the police.
    "We will no longer accept this, it must stop now," he said.
    Some 120 women were killed in Italy in 2023, according to data published by the national statistics bureau ISTAT.
    The report added that more than half of the homicides are committed by partners or former partners of the victims and about 20% by other relatives.
    (Production: Antonio Denti, Oriana Boselli)
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