It is estimated that between 800 and 1,600 women are killed in the EU by a family member or an intimate partner every year (Photo: Unsplash)

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From #MeToo to the manosphere — The shadow pandemic sweeping the EU

Health & Society

by Ciara Bottomley, Athens,

It is estimated that between 800 and 1,600 women are killed in the EU by a family member or an intimate partner every year (Photo: Unsplash)

“A patrol car is not a taxi,” are likely to be some of the last words Kyriaki Griva heard before she was murdered at a police station in northern Athens by her ex-partner.

Griva is the sixth woman this year to be killed by her partner in Greece. One woman was set on fire by her husband. Another woman, pregnant, was allegedly killed by her partner and his frien...