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Every four weeks a woman is murdered by her partner in Switzerland
Your own four walls are not always a haven of peace and security: Last year the police registered almost 20,000 cases of domestic violence, that’s a good 1000 or 6.2 percent more than the previous year. 29 of them were completed homicides.
That corresponds to almost two-thirds of all homicides recorded by the police in Switzerland, writes the Federal Statistical Office (FSO); the total was 46. Of the 29 homicides in the home, 15 occurred as a couple, in which 14 women and one man were killed. “This means that around every 4 weeks a woman dies within a society,” writes the FSO.
The number of homicides has averaged around 25 in recent years. On the FSO’s 10-year list, one number is out of the ordinary: With 36 homicides, 2015 was the black year for statistics.
It started right on New Year’s Day when a mother in Flaach ZH suffocated her two children because the authorities wanted to take them away. In February, a father killed his four-year-old daughter at Niederlenz AG. In May, a man shot his in-laws, brothers-in-law and a neighbor in Schwyz, in April and July the sons killed their fathers and fathers, respectively, in July, September and November the men killed their wives. These are just some examples.
While fatal family dramas are not necessarily increasingly common, the total number of domestic violence crimes has risen almost continuously since 2009. While the police recorded 16,055 domestic violent crimes in 2009, there were already 17,685 in 2016 and 19,669 in 2019. .
Children hit more and more often
By no means are men always attacking or making it worse. The sex ratio is around three-quarters of men to one-quarter of women. But children also become violent within families.
Statistically speaking, they are mainly boys between 15 and 25 years old. The exposure rate – number of defendants per 10,000 inhabitants – of this population group was 11.2 in 2009, ten years later it had increased to 14.9. The 15-17 year olds were the “most powerful.”
The wrath of the homeless
In 2019, the police registered 11,058 victims. Their number has increased 3.7 percent compared to the previous year. The gender distribution has been consistent for years and is 72 percent female compared to 28 percent male.
Half of the domestic crimes reported by the police in 2019 concerned an existing partner and 28 percent concerned a former partner. The remainder is divided between parent-child relationships (care) and acts of violence against other family members. (aeg / sda)
