Europe 1 with AFP 11:29 am, November 22, 2021
In 2020, 102 women were killed at the hands of their spouse or ex-spouse.
They were 146 in 2019. A 10% increase was therefore recorded by the police and gendarmerie services and the departments of Seine-Saint-Denis and Guyana are the most affected.
The police and gendarmerie services recorded a 10% increase in domestic violence which affected 159,400 people of all sexes combined in 2020, the statistics service of the Ministry of the Interior announced on Monday.
About 87% of victims of domestic violence are women, or 139,200, a stable proportion compared to 2019, according to these figures from the ministry, which do not count homicides.
A 10% increase during confinement
In 2020, 102 women were killed by the beatings of their spouse or ex. They were 146 in 2019. The majority of victims, as in 2019, suffered voluntary physical violence, whether or not resulting in total incapacity for work. Some 5,500 people (or 3% of victims), an overwhelming majority of women (5,400), have complained of rape or sexual assault by their spouse.
Domestic violence increased by 10% during the first confinement - if we take into account the date of commission of the facts - compared to the same period in 2019. even if these figures are not final, underlines the ministry, "since they only count the facts committed during the confinements which were brought to the attention of the police and the gendarmerie at the beginning of January 2021 at the latest".
Seine-Saint-Denis and Guyana the most affected
Aveyron is the department with the lowest number of victims recorded per inhabitant (2.7 female victims aged 20 or over per 1,000 inhabitants of the same sex and age).
Conversely, Seine-Saint-Denis and Guyana are the two departments of France most affected.
According to the Living Environment and Safety victimization surveys, carried out by INSEE to supplement the raw data of recorded complaints, 295,000 people, including 213,000 women, declare on average that they have been victims of physical and / or sexual violence by their spouse or ex. - spouse between 2011 and 2018.
"Domestic violence is infrequently followed by complaints, in particular when it comes to sexual assault", underlines the Ministry of the Interior, to explain the difference between the figures of the victimization survey and the number of complaints registered.
According to the CVS survey, only 27% of victims went to the police station or the gendarmerie, 18% filed a complaint and 7% a handbook or a judicial intelligence report (PVRJ), each year on average between 2011 and 2018.