The Mossos d’Esquadra have received 1,910 complaints of sexual assault During the first six months of the year, something more than half of all those presented in 2023 (3,686), according to data from the Department of the Interior. At mid-year, the number of complaints of sexual assault in all areas that have been submitted to the Mossos d’Esquadra represents just over half of all those in 2023Specifically, 67 more complaints.
This is stated in the annex to the parliamentary response that the minister, Nuria Parlón, On October 23, to a question from the Vox deputy, Joan Garrigaon the number of complaints received by the Catalan police in this matter in the first half of the year.
According to the data that accompanied the parliamentary response of the Minister of the Interior, The Basic Police Area (ABP) that has received the most complaints so far this year is Barcelona (in the aggregate of the ABPs of each district of the city) with 505, due to the volume of population concentrated in the city. But if you look at the population of each area in relation to each other, The highest ratio of complaints per 100,000 inhabitants is to the ABP of Baix Empordà-Sant Feliu de Guíxolswith 35 (in Barcelona the incidence is 31), which includes the municipalities of Calonge and Sant Antoni, Castell, Platja d’Aro and s’Agaró, Sant Feliu de Guíxols and Santa Cristina d’Aro.
It also has one of the highest ratio the ABP of Alt Urgell, 34 complaints per 100,000 inhabitants, although the absolute number is 7, and with almost 30, the ABP of Pallars Jussà-Pallars Sobirà and La Noguera appear.
The average ratio of Catalonia, so far this yearstands at 22.6 complaints per 100,000 inhabitants. And by district there are no major differences, with a slightly higher value in the Girona regions (with a ratio of almost 24 complaints), while Tarragona There is the lowest, 22.
The Clinic attends to more cases of sexual violence
Last week the Hospital Clinicthe reference center in Barcelona to care for people over 16 years of age who have suffered sexual violence, explained that this year Until October, it has treated 624 people for sexual violence6% more than in the same period last year. The majority (88%) are women, and 40% of attacks have been committed on girls under 25 years of agethe group that has the most intention to report, according to the same hospital. The Clinic also reported that the 10.5% of attacks have been committed in groupsand warn of the influence of pornography on “the design of aggression.”
On the other hand, the hospital also focused on environments that are considered more “safe”, but that in reality can become places of violence. And it is that More than half (56%) of the attacks on the women assisted were committed in a home15% on public roads and only 11% in nightlife venues. In this sense, a quarter of the women assisted under 45 years of age have been raped by an acquaintance in an environment that could be considered safe.