Roberta METSOLA, EP President, gives an opening statement recent violences on women including the case of Giulia Tramontano, 29, was seven months pregnant when she was stabbed to death by her partner and baby’s father, 30-year-old Alessandro Impagnatiello, who was reportedly in a secret relationship with another woman. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

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METSOLA, Roberta (EPP, MT, EP President)

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Resumption of session and order of business: Introductory remark by Roberta METSOLA, EP President on Giulia, young pregnant woman victim of domestic violence

SOUNDBITE (English), Roberta METSOLA, President of the European Parliament, Also, colleagues, this weekend we bid a heartbreaking farewell to another young woman violently stolen from us too soon. Giulia was a young woman who was seven months pregnant, living near Milano in Italy. On May 27, she was beaten, stabbed, murdered, and her body burned.

SOUNDBITE (English), Roberta METSOLA, President of the European Parliament, This shocking case is not isolated. In Europe, we have seen too many examples of women being killed. Just in the last weeks we have Ana Vanesa in Spain, Delia in Portugal, Fatima in France and the list goes on.

SOUNDBITE (English), Roberta METSOLA, President of the European Parliament, We cannot become immune to the horror of domestic abuse, femicide and violence against women. We cannot allow the cycle to continue. So for every woman who has been killed, let us state from here: not one more.