Gender or sexist violence does not stop. On the contrary, it is getting worse, while the authorities do not find the key to combat it and the politicians become entangled to the point of losing unity of action in such a sensitive matter that has more and more victims.
In this context, the number of women victims of gender violence in the second quarter of 2023 in the Valencian Community was 6,764 compared to the 6,252 registered in the same period of the previous year, which represents an increase of 8.2%, according to the 'Quarterly Report on Gender Violence' released this Friday by the Domestic and Gender Violence Observatory of the General Council of the Judiciary.
All of this, despite the fact that the number of complaints received by judicial bodies between April and June of this year, 6,885, remained stable, as it barely fell 0.3% in relation to those registered a year before, when they were presented. 6,909.
The data in Valencian territory is chilling: the Valencian Community occupies the third position in the country in terms of the rate of victims of gender violence per 10,000 women, with a ratio of 25.5, only behind the Balearic Islands, with 31, 4, and Murcia, with 25.7. The national average in this period was 19.2 victims per 10,000 women. In other words, 25.5 out of every 10,000 female residents in the autonomy have suffered this type of violence for the simple fact of being women.
Regarding the number of complaints, the largest number of those 6,885, specifically 4,482, was presented by the victim herself, either directly in court or at police headquarters. Another 71 were filed by relatives of the injured party and 1,002 resulted from direct police intervention. For its part, the complaints counted from an injury report received directly from the judicial bodies were 813 and those presented by third parties amounted to 417.
Of the 6,764 Valencian victims counted in this second quarter of 2023, 4,238 were Spanish, 62.7% of the total, and 2,526, the remaining 37.3%, were foreigners.
The same report highlights that the courts with jurisdiction over violence against women in the Valencian territory handed down 1,225 sentences between April and June of this year, of which 1,133, 92.5% of the total, were convictions.
In the Criminal Courts, which prosecute crimes punishable by up to five years in prison, the number of sentences handed down was 909 and 68.5% of them, 623, were convictions.
Finally, during the second quarter of the year in the Violence against Women Courts of the Valencian Community, 81% of the victim protection orders initiated were adopted, 1% were inadmissible and the remaining 19% were denied.
