Vailled against feminicides, Friday April 4, 2025 on the federal square in Bern.Image: KEYSTONE
On April 10 in Epagny (FR), a fourteenth female occurred. What is the problem of Switzerland? Doctorate Alessandra Duc Marwood, responsible for the victims of victims of violence Les Boréales, sheds light.
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On Thursday April 10 in Epagny, in the canton of Friborg, a man presents himself in the workplace of his wife who performs households. He enters the house and kills it before turning the weapon against him. At the end of 2024, the quarantine had spent twelve weeks in prison following a complaint filed by his wife for domestic violence. released, a prohibition of perimeter had been pronounced by justice.
It is the fourteenth female identified in Switzerland in 2025, which makes it one of the “most deadly for women”, alert the organizations cited by 24 hours. As a comparison, 20 women were recorded in 2024.
How to explain this violence in the country? Doctorate Alessandra Duc Marwood, responsible for the victims of victims of violence of the Chuv les Boréales, replies.
14 women since the beginning of the year: what is the problem of Switzerland?
Alessandra Duc Marwood: It is difficult to admit that violence exists. We believe that when there is a problem, it can resolve. Violence is trivialized. Consequence: many victims who seek help struggle to receive it, in any case coming from official organs. Certainly households exist and the police are formed.
“But even Today, when the victims speak of lived violence, they are told that they exaggerate. Their confused speech due to fear is taken for a lie. In Switzerland, the system denies danger. “
Why do we deny the danger?
It is a psychic protection mechanism that exists in everyone, because the unthinkable is difficult to imagine.
“In these men who kill women, most of the time there are history, evaluations that allow them to say that they are dangerous”
Alessandra Duc Marwood, doctor responsible for the victim assistance unit of violence in the boreales.
In Switzerland, we don’t know how to read the warning signs?
Even if we know how to read them, they are not taken seriously. In my unit in the CHUV, we have criteria that make it possible to assess violence: is an author aware of its violent behavior? Does he recognize his responsibility? Or, on the contrary, does he have the other on the other, saying for example that his wife caused him? Does he measure the impact of his actions? Or he said things like: “She didn’t hurt that”, “she only stayed three days in the hospital”.
“Does the violent man recognize the facts?” Or does he pretend that we are trying on his fate? This second scenario is a very powerful perversion mechanism ”
What should be done to solve the problem at the root?
We must invest in protecting the victims, especially children – a third of victims of violence will reproduce them – in order to create a benevolent tomorrow society. Female is the tip of the iceberg: for a murder, how many women are abused, muzzled?
Do you have concrete examples of protective measures?
Today, protective measures are based only on victims. They must leave everything, find themselves locked up, in most cases with their children, in reception centers, because often the author does not respect removal measures.
“These women live in the fear of meeting the author and being attacked, even worse”
I went to Norway to visit a hospital site where family homes were built. A real work is done with the authors of violence and families are not left alone, because this is simply not possible.
“At one point, we no longer agree. If there is not a real transformation on the part of violent men, they cannot live alone, even less buy weapons. They should not be released. ”
The figures for female women in Switzerland in 2025 are particularly high compared to previous years. How to explain this increase?
It is difficult to answer. What I can say is that in CHUV, we observe an explosion of requests. Intra -family violence increases. Yet:
“If the victim is surrounded and protected, there is less risk that the ball will reach him one day. The author will not take action if he has an entourage that contains it ”
Alessandra Duc Marwood, doctor responsible for the victim assistance unit of violence in the boreales.
You say it is difficult to explain this increase. Does Switzerland want to understand?
At the political level, there is a displayed will to understand. The reality is different. Things are struggling to evolve, the law does not follow. There are still a lot of flaws.
“A violent man is put in prison, then he comes out. We have failed to create real protective nets. The responsibility is collective “
Female must become a social priority. This is not the case in 2025. However, creating a society with less violence is not complicated. But our protection devices, our justice and political action do not take into account the extent of the problem.
“We are light years away from what to do to fight feminicides”
