Gender

Europol Claims Crime has No Gender

The European agency is caught red-handed minimizing male violence.

Photo by Europol

On Saturday, Europol launched it’s “Crime has no gender” campaign, which supposedly proves that “women are violent too!!! They commit crimes that are as serious as men’s!”.

The campaign is appalling. While vicious female criminals exist, downplaying that the majority of murderers, terrorists, rapists and traffickers (of humans, drugs, arms…) are men is irresponsible, even more so from Europol who is the first to know. We cannot fight male violence if we don’t name it, instead focusing on media scarecrows like this campaign.

The campaign features 21 criminals with hidden faces, each of them wanted by a different European Union country. Their full photo is revealed as you scroll down their “profile”, and little by little you realize that 18 of them are women…

Ok. Except that on Europol’s complete list of most wanted criminals, there currently are 64 people, of which only 19 are women!!

Then, half of these crimes committed by women constitute fraud/theft/minor drug trafficking offenses — which is not comparable with murder/rape/torture/human trafficking (areas where the gap with male criminals is even bigger).

Hidden in these sensationalized profiles is the fact that, often, one or several men are behind most of the crimes these women committed. A few examples:

Hilde van Acker was only an accomplice in the murder for which she was convicted (although an active accomplice). Her boyfriend organized and committed the murder. Her profile doesn’t mention this.

Elizabeth Dizon Honrada was convicted for contributing to import cocaine on a boat, the captain of which happened to be her male partner.

Angelina Sacjuka AND a man accidentally killed a woman they had pushed to the ground during a fight.

Ildiko Dudas was convicted of drug trafficking and child abuse. She AND her husband would often bring their children to the night clubs and bars where they sold drugs, which is indeed serious, but nothing like the millions of men who sexually abuse children with impunity in Europe.

The campaign reaches a peak with the case of Polish citizen Dorota Kazmierska. Her profile simply describes her as having killed a man, leaving out the fact that this man was her husband. Interestingly enough, she is the only woman, among the 4 women who are wanted for murder, who acted without a male accomplice.

So, I Googled Polish news, and… surprise! Kazmierska was a victim of domestic violence.

Kazmierska had tried to get away from her husband several times. While she was hosted by a shelter with her children, he found them. Kazmierska killed her husband with his firearm and called the police about it right after (indicating that it was not a planned, cold-blooded murder).

She was sentenced to 25 years in prison, did five, was temporarily released so she could take care of her ill son, and didn’t turn herself in afterward. Europol’s campaign has a button for each criminal: “Help us find the fugitive. Send us information”…

[Edit] Dorota Kazmierska has just been arrested.

To top it all, they edited her photo (as well as some other women’s) to give her more of a “pretty criminal” look, showing her clad in a black leather jacket, with brighter hair and complexion and redder lips:

We are indeed dealing with sensationalist propaganda.

Each criminal’s face first appears hidden by an array of objects supposed to be linked to their crime. Here, Dorota Kazmierska is wearing a hockey mask from a horror movie (pictured above) that echoes the masks used to torture and humiliate black slaves, also used during the Renaissance on women who talked too much… The “scolds”, the “liers”…

Coincidence, or Freudian slip from the campaign’s designers?