Sexual violence was up 16% in Italy
in the first 10 months of 2022 compared to the same period in
2021, according to a year-end survey released by the Italian
police force command on Friday.
On the other hand, persecutory acts or stalking decreased by
10.3% and there is also a 3.9% decrease in family violence.,
according to the report from the Central Directorate of Criminal
Police.
There were 309 murders in Italy in 2022 and some 122 victims
were women, the report said.
Crimes by minors were higher than in the pre-pandemic period,
the report also said.
Comparing the first ten months of 2019 (i.e. in the pre-pandemic
period) with those of 2022, there was a 14.3% increase in the
number of minors reported and arrested, with peaks concerning
certain types of crimes: attacks +53.8%, voluntary homicides
+35.3% (17 in absolute value in 2019, 23 in 2022), attempted
murders +65.1%, +33.8% injuries, +50% beatings, +75.3% robberies
(+91.2% for those in public street).
Analysing the first ten months of the year, there is an increase
of around 20 per cent of thefts compared to 2021 (by 19.7 per
cent). In the same reference period, robberies grew by 18.2%: a
figure that is an average across the various forms of robbery,
which see an increase of 20.7% for those committed in the public
street.
The report states that the figure for robberies is still lower
than in the pre-pandemic period: it was 887,905 in the first ten
months of 2019, compared to 782,391 in the same period of 2022
(and 653,889 in the first ten months of 2021).
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