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 France “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-Calais, Réunion, Nord, Somme 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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