In the office of the public minister: 

– Look, let me explain. My daughter and her husband live together in my house, and I hear at night how they fight, and I heard him say, very clearly: I’m going to kill you. Then I heard him beating her and I went running to see what happened. When I got there, she was bleeding, thrown on the kitchen floor, and he had the blender in his hands, trying to hit her on the head with it. Thank God I screamed and he stopped. If I hadn’t arrived, he would have killed her.

– Yes ma’am, but this isn’t a potential femicide, its domestic violence. It’s different, and is punished in a different way.

– But listen, I heard him say he was going to kill her.

– But…did he kill her? No, right? So, it’s domestic violence. If you hadn’t intervened and your daughter had received a fatal blow to her head, then it would potentially be a case of femicide.

– So…you’re telling me that he would have had to kill her or almost killed her? I don’t understand. This is bad, my son-in-law is walking free and has already threatened my daughter again.

– I’m sorry, we can’t do anything. It’s the law.

– Well, fuck the law.