Overview
- FRA and EIGE released EU-wide findings from more than 114,000 interviews showing 30.7% of women have experienced physical or sexual violence since age 15.
- Police reporting remains rare for partner abuse, with only 6.1% of incidents reported versus 11.3% for assaults by non-partners, which agencies link to shame, fear and low trust.
- Digital abuse features prominently, with 8.5% of women reporting online stalking, 7% of working women facing online sexual harassment and 10% having their location tracked by a partner.
- Germany’s 2024 crime data cited by state officials recorded 265,942 domestic-violence cases, 53,451 sexual offenses and 308 women killed.
- Hamburg’s Anna Gallina and NRW’s Benjamin Limbach urged making 2026 the year of victim protection, proposing expanded electronic monitoring, a de-escalation detention tool, criminalizing sexual deepfakes, tougher penalties for drug-facilitated assaults and closing tracker and rape-video loopholes.