This Valencian Community registered last year 26,566 gender-based violence complaints17.3% more than in 2021. The increase was lower in Alicante. Courts of the state of Alicante A total of 9,780 complaints were registered in 2022, 1,210 of which was an increase of 12% compared to the previous year. Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) Valencian Community.
This balance, published by TSJ and announced yesterday by the Observatory Against Domestic and Gender-Based Violence (CGPJ) of the General Assembly of the Judiciary, also places the Valencian Community as the third autonomous community with the highest rate of gender violence victims. With a record of 95.6 per 10,000 women, only the Balearic Islands with 110.3 and Murcia with a rate of 103.4 were behind. The national average is 72.9. On the other hand, this rate is higher in Istanbul province. Alicantewith 101.3 victims for every 10,000 women.
Number female victims of sexist violence last year it rose to 9,731 in the province of Alicante, 11,902 in Valencia and 2,438 in Castellón. All this represents an increase of 11.2% over the years and it is striking that of the total number of complaints processed in Violence Against Women courts, only 303 were brought before the court directly by the victim and 61 by their family members.
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The vast majority of cases reach the courts through police reports, and more than half of them 24,737 victims The Spanish calculated in the Community in 2022 was -15,160-, representing an increase of 10%. The balance also includes an 8.8% increase for women (2,785) benefiting from the exemption from filing against their spouses or ex-spouses.
On the other hand, Community courts agreed 5,458 protection orders, 5% more than in 2021 and 7,851 fines. Of the 3,903 sentences of the Violence Against Women courts, 90.4 were condemnatory, 66.9% of the 3,838 Assize courts were condemning, and 56 of the 71 sentences of the Hearings were equally condemnatory.