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Violence against women is a traumatic experience, not only for the women themselves, but also for their children, their relatives and even for those who try and help the victims. I have personal experience of this. I once drove a woman who had been beaten up by her husband to hospital and to the police station. On that occasion I was seized by an emotion that is probably often felt by women. It was a powerless rage. One feels this same rage on hearing that the police have taken a drunken man convicted of ill-treating his family back to his former wife’s home and hear the police justify their action on the grounds that the man’s last registered domicile was at his former wife’s home.
A few years ago a tragedy occurred in my own home town. A man got out of one of the centres where drunkards are taken to sober up. These centres are not prisons. The man managed to walk a couple of kilometres, killed his wife and threw her body out of the window. I do not want anything like that to happen again.
Violence is not a domestic matter. It can never be justified or perceived in relative terms. The whole of society must make a stand against violence. We cannot allow this problem to be sidelined or understate its importance for society. We must not play down the scale of the phenomenon either.
I supported Mrs Carlshamre’s report because we are bound to do all in our power to eliminate violence against women. The zero tolerance principle is not always necessary, but on this occasion it really is essential."@en1
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