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Stuttgart (AP) - In Baden-Württemberg, more than 11,200 women were victims of attacks by their boyfriend, partner, husband or former partner in the past year.
Four out of five victims of so-called intimate partner violence (81 percent) in the southwest were women, said the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior.
"We repeatedly experience crimes that are specifically committed against women because they are women, for misogynist motives," said State Interior Minister Thomas Strobl (CDU) of the dpa.
These are particularly reprehensible crimes: "These are crimes that are committed in the home and outside the home - from domestic violence to stalking to sexual violence, bodily harm, and even homicide."
Such crimes would have to be removed from the taboo and taken from the dark field.
According to police statistics, the number of women injured in this area has increased slightly compared to the previous year.
Around 7,100 women were injured more easily by attacks by their partners or former companions, and another 100 suffered serious injuries.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, 19 women were killed as a result of intimate partner violence in 2020.
In the previous year, the number of victims was slightly more than 10,500 women; in 2009 it was around 9,900.
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In a case of fatal intimate partner violence from last year, the Stuttgart district court will also judge on Tuesday afternoon (12 p.m.).
In Allmersbach im Tal (Rems-Murr-Kreis), a man is said to have killed his ex-girlfriend and her daughter last June.
In their pleadings, both the public prosecutor's office and the defendant's defense lawyer assumed life imprisonment for two murders.
The main question is whether the chamber also decides on a particular gravity of the guilt.
Then the alleged perpetrator would have to remain in custody after the compulsory prison sentence of 15 years.
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Article by Marneros in the "Spectrum"
Interview Schröttle in the Stuttgarter Zeitung