Every three days a couple murder: Fear - inspiring statistics of women's murders involving Kosovars are published

Why would Light from Regensburg die 14 times stabbed the 54-year-old Kosovo knife against 47-year-old wife and mother of three. In the courtroom in July 2021, he would give cause for the next blast with deadly consequences to an unknown number of telephones on his wife's cell phone. That it was the number of his wife's brother, the convict would already learn it from prosecution investigations, local media report. The light was already dead.

25 November is the International Day for Elimination of Violence on Women a chance to see the actual figures. The annual report by the Federal Criminal Police, released Thursday in Berlin, shows that 121 people were killed or killed by the violence practiced by partners with whom they lived under a roof in 2021. 109 of them are women and 12 men.

“Gati every three days dies a woman from the violence exercised by her partner or former partner”, German Family Minister Lisa Paus said at the press conference on the report's presentation. Figures of the violence exercised by partners are much higher. According to BKA statistics, in 2021 authorities have registered a total of 143,604 people affected by violence committed by partners or former partners. Compared to the first year of the 2020 Corona, the number has dropped by three percent. However, the overall trend in recent years has been on the rise: Between 2017 and 2021, the number of affected persons has increased by 3.4 percent. 80 percent of the victims are women.

Faeser: “Women's losers are criminals”

Germany's Interior Minister Nancy Fyser said on the occasion of presenting the report that “violence against women should not be underestimated. When men kill women because they're women, then here's where we're dealing with femicides. Men who practice violence against women, whether psychological or physical, are criminals. Criminals are prosecuted with all severity”.

There are 350 shelters in Germany for raped women. Very little, given the figures presented by the BKA: Federal Family Minister Lisa Paus said a nationwide support offer is needed in the city as well as in the villages: “We want to fix this in federal law. We want to create a law to guarantee the financing of housing for women”, the family minister promised.

Chief of the Federal Criminal Police Office Holger Münch referred to experiences of the violence of the authors themselves, highlighted patriarchal positions, traditional models and stress as a cause of violence. The fact that most crimes occur within the four walls of the house should not make the authors feel secure. ” The violence in partnership affects us all. No one should close their eyes” he said.

Aids to Rape

Interior Minister Faeser appealed to the affected to contact the police or relevant counseling centres. Women affected by violence in Germany can seek help on the internet at https://www.hilfetelf.de/ or phone number: 8000 116 016

The phone manager, Petra Söchting, said the number of calls in the first year of the 2020 Corona increased by 15 percent and has since remained at that level.

For men affected by violence in partnership, nearly 20 percent, counseling offers are less. According to Family Minister Paus, there is an emergency number for them, but it is not available all the time. This too must change in the future, Paus said.

Over 1,000 rioters from Kosovo

The term violence in partnership involves psychological and physical violence. In 2021, 59.6 percent of cases included simple deliberate body injuries beginning with a slap or spit. The latter are cases of canning, oscillation, and tribulation (24.2 percent), and third place dangerous body injuries (12.2 percent). Most authors are of German citizenship, according to the report.

Among the immigrants who have suffered violence in partnerships most frequently are citizens from Kosovo, with 997 affected. While the number of perpetrators from Kosovo has been 1049.