As pandemic eases, fatal gender violence worsens

With women gaining more freedom, the aggressors feel as if they're losing control and react with more extreme violence. Photo: Unsplash/Noah Buscher

As life gradually returns to normal in Europe, there has been a resurgence of deadly violence against women as abusers experience a "loss of the control" they enjoyed throughout the coronavirus lockdowns.

And their faces are making the headlines. Like Chahinez, a French woman who was burnt alive by her estranged husband, or the five women killed in three weeks in spring in Sweden, whose images haunt TV bulletins there.