According to the European Institute for Equality (EIGE), the general definition is as follows: gender-based killings of women and girls, perpetrated or tolerated by both private and public actors. The term includes, among others, the killing of a woman as a result of intimate partner violence, the torture and killing of a woman as a result of misogyny, the killing of women and girls as "honour crimes" and other forms of killing, the targeted killing of women and girls in context of armed conflict, and cases of femicide linked to gangs, organized crime, drug traffickers and trafficking in women and girls.

With a very important article in the "News" the President of the Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou intervened in the problem that arose in the last few days regarding the use, the meaning of the term and the corresponding gaps in our legal system.

The President of the Republic states in detail: "'Crime of passion', 'in the heat of the soul', 'for reasons of honour': that's how gender crimes were called and covered up for decades. The term femicide has emerged in recent decades to designate a crime committed against women because of their gender, for the simple reason that they are women. The violence inflicted on women behind closed doors, as a form of punishment for their "infidelity", usually has a male face.

And femicide comes as a culmination of their often chronic physical and mental abuse. Femicide is a crime inscribed with the moral standards of the perpetrators, the gender hierarchy and the distribution of powers in the family microcosm, the possessive mentality in relation to female family members, the internalized legitimization of interpersonal violence.

"It presupposes relations of power and dependence between abuser and victim, physical, social or economic inequality, dominance of outdated social concepts and gender stereotypes. I will not repeat here the appallingly large number of women who are murdered every day in the world. I will simply emphasize that it is time to eliminate the dominant sexist discourse that places the blame for femicide on the murdered women themselves. It is the time that the loopholes or deficits of our justice system are dealt with in our country as well, so that the perpetuation of the regime of fear and subjugation of women ceases and the escalation of gender-based violence, which, with femicide, is manifested in its most extreme form. Society must effectively protect women who are victims of gender-based violence, through information, empowerment and multidimensional support."