Domestic violence: 159,400 victims in 2020, up 10%

The police and gendarmerie services recorded a 10% increase in domestic violence, which concerned 159.400 people all sexes combined in 2020, the statistical service of the Interior Ministry announced on Monday, November 22, November 22.

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About 87% of victims of domestic violence are women, or 139.200, a stable proportion compared to 2019, according to these ministry figures, which do not count homicides.In 2020, 102 women had been killed under the blows of their spouse or ex.

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3% of victims filed a complaint

The victims mainly, as in 2019, undergoing voluntary physical violence which led or not a total incapacity for work.Some 5,500 people (or 3% of victims), from women to an overwhelming majority (5,400), filed a complaint for rape or sexual assault by their spouse.Conjugal violence increased by 10% during the first confinement - if we take into account the date of commission of facts - compared to the same period in 2019.These violence fell by 13% over the period of the second confinement, 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 policeand the gendarmerie no later than early January 2021 ”.

Aveyron is the department which presents the lowest number of victims registered per inhabitant (2.7 women victims aged 20 or over for 1,000 same -sex and age inhabitants).Conversely, Seine-Saint-Denis and Guyana are the two most affected French departments.According to victimization surveys living and safety environment, carried out by INSEE to complete the raw data of the recorded complaints, 295.000 people, including 213.000 women, say on average having been victims of physical and/or sexual violence by their spouse or ex-spouse between 2011 and 2018.

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"Conjugal violence is not very frequently followed by complaints, in particular when it comes to sexual assaults," said the Ministry of the Interior, to explain the gap between the figures of the victimization survey andThe number of complaints recorded.According to the CVS survey, only 27% of the victims moved to the police station or to the gendarmerie, 18% filed a complaint and 7% a handrail or a judicial intelligence report (PVRJ), each year on average between 2011and 2018.

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