The German interior minister’s admission of a significant increase in violence against women

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, quoted by the German newspaper Tagus Spiegel, Nancy Pfizer, the Federal Minister of the Interior of Germany, has announced an initiative to better protect women from violence. According to her, every four minutes a woman in Germany is a victim of violence by her partner or ex-husband. This German official told the newspapers of the Funke media group: Every three days a woman is killed by her partner or former partner. According to him, behind each of these cases, the fear of an attack in the nearest The most intimate environment, where a person should actually feel safe, lies, and violence does not start only with beatings or abuse, but also includes stalking and psychological terror.

German Federal Minister of the Interior In another part of his speech, he said: criminal consequences and banning criminals from contacting injured women are still not enough. We need more action to get the perpetrators to stop their aggressive behavior and actually change. Violence against women should not leave anyone indifferent.

The German Minister of the Interior continued: We must lower the threshold of deterrence for victims to seek help and complain. No woman should be ashamed of being a victim of violence. The blame is never on the victim, but always on the perpetrator.”

Pfizer announced that it now wants to push itself towards Austria in this direction. : “Anyone who is prohibited from entering the apartment or approaching the concerned and affected woman must participate in measures to prevent violence.” Anyone who does not do this will be severely punished.

He added: “In Germany, too, we must complete the bans on communication and make them more effective according to the law on the protection of violence.

Pfizer emphasized that it will talk about this with the Federal Minister of Justice, Marko Boschmann, in the so-called traffic light coalition. Criminals should be evicted from the apartment immediately after the first violent attack.

The minister says: This should be carefully monitored so that the perpetrators do not return quickly.

The German interior minister also said that better prevention It also includes increasing police training in order to respond quickly and sensitively to crimes. According to him, it is unlikely that violent criminals will quickly disappear from the radar. According to the German Interior Minister, According to this information, violation of this order can lead to a fine of up to 5000 euros or an alternative prison sentence of up to 6 weeks. According to the German news agency, women especially suffer from violence in relationships, as from the last The report on the state of domestic violence can be seen from the Federal Criminal Police Office.

In the field of domestic violence in Germany, the number of victims increased by 9.1% to 157,818 in 2022 compared to the previous year. 80.1% of victims were women and 78.1% of suspects were men.

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