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Luxembourg rules out adding femicide to criminal code

Luxembourg will not follow Italy in creating a standalone femicide crime, with Justice Minister Elisabeth Margue confirming existing laws are sufficient.

The decision means gender-based killings will continue to be prosecuted under current homicide laws that already allow for doubled sentences when gender motives are proven and carry a sentence of life imprisonment.

Minister Margue argued that creating a separate femicide offence could conflict with constitutional equality principles, while MPs Diane Adehm and Nathalie Morgenthaler had asked whether Luxembourg would follow Italy’s approach.

Also today

• Six doctors at CHL hospital have accused a colleague at Robert Schuman hospital of performing unnecessary knee operations. The hospital has suspended the surgeon.
• The political world is mourning the death of former Luxembourg City Mayor and Minister Colette Flesch, who passed away on Wednesday at the age of 88.
• The Chamber of Commerce has warned that Luxembourg’s economic growth falls short of the 3-4% needed to sustain pensions and healthcare long-term.
• Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, US President Trump said he is seeking immediate negotiations to acquire Greenland but added he does not want to use force.
• Mourners paid their respects today to legendary Italian designer Valentino Garavani, as his coffin went on public display following his death this week aged 93.
• Manchester City’s players will refund ticket costs for fans who flew all the way to the Arctic Circle only to witness a humiliating 3-1 defeat to Bodo/Glimt in the Champions League on Tuesday.
  

On air

Milka’s masterclass in making chocolate disappear. They shrunk their bar from 100g to 90g, hiked the price from €1.49 to €1.99, and thought nobody would notice. That’s a 48% increase in the same purple wrapper.

German consumers were not having it - 67% voted it ‘Deceptive Packaging of the Year’. The lesson? Never mess with people’s chocolate.

Figure of the day

273 arrested, over €1 million seized in drug trafficking blitz

• A joint cross-border police operation, involving 8,400 officers from Belgium, France and Luxembourg aims to combat international drug trafficking
• Authorities confiscated a range of illicit substances, including cocaine, cannabis, heroin, ketamine, amphetamine, MDMA, synthetic cannabinoids, and nitrous oxide.
• The operation also led to the seizure of €1,125,801 in cash and 129 vehicles.
• Alongside the arrests, 388 drivers were caught operating a vehicle under the influence of drugs.
  

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