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the number of victims recorded up 10% over one year

A woman dressed in a white suit is photographed in downtown , November 25, 2006, on the sidelines of a demonstration organized on the occasion of the international day of action for the eradication of violence in towards women. JEFF PACHOUD / AFP

Some 271,000 victims of domestic violence, the vast majority women, were recorded by the security forces in 2023, an increase of 10% over one year, the Ministry of the Interior announced on Wednesday, November 6.

The number of victims recorded in “has doubled since 2016”specifies in a press release the ministerial statistical service for internal security (SSMSI), which includes this increase in the “context of freedom of speech and improvement of reception conditions for victims”.

As in previous years, the vast majority of victims are women (85%), while those accused are most often men (86%), notes the SSMSI.

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According to the Ministry of the Interior, two thirds of domestic violence (64%) consists of physical violence. Thirty-two percent of victims suffered verbal or psychological violence, including moral harassment (17%), threats (12%), invasions of privacy (1%), or insults and defamation (1%). . Four percent were victims of sexual violence.

For 2% of victims of moral harassment, the facts led to suicide or a suicide attempt, specifies the SSMSI.

As in 2022, Pas-de-, Réunion, , and Seine-Saint-Denis “are among the departments which display the highest rates of victims recorded per 1,000 inhabitants” aged 15 to 64, according to the ministry.

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The World with AFP

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