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Carolin Kebekus appeals: Stop violence against women
Carolin Kebekus addresses deadly violence against women. photo
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The TV presenter wants to make deadly violence against women the subject of her new show.
TV entertainer Carolin Kebekus calls for more action to be taken against deadly violence against women. “You have to think about it,” said the 42-year-old of the German Press Agency in Cologne. According to Kebekus, in Germany a woman is killed by her ex-partner or partner every third day.
“Every day a man tries,” she continued. In their view, this can only be stopped if society, politics and the judiciary conduct more education.
Kebekus is specifically concerned with so-called femicides. The Duden describes a femicide as “deadly violence against women or a woman because of sex”. The term is used, for example, for hate and contempt-driven murders by men of women. Kebekus wants to make femicide a topic in the new edition of her “Carolin Kebekus Show” (Thursday, 11:50 p.m., ARD).
Among other things, she criticizes the fact that the word “femicide” rarely occurs in the media. In the field of the extremely popular “True Crime” podcasts, they are often trivialized. Kebekus also addressed the judiciary: “There is actually a case in which a man was not convicted of murder but only of manslaughter because the woman told him a few days before that she was leaving him. Since the separation from the killed woman, the court did not classify the act as murder.”