“A woman dies every three days at the hands of her partner.” This expression is now known to everyone. What if it was the trees that hid the forest? In France, every day, three women become victims of femicide or attempted murder of women during marriage. A figure that has increased in one year, according to data from the inter-ministerial mission for the protection of women (Miprof), published this Thursday, November 20 and covering the year 2024. “Every seven hours, there is a woman whose partner or former partner commits murder, attempted murder, urges suicide, or attempts suicide,” determines the annual letter from the National Observatory on Violence Against Women, which relies on Miprof.
In detail, last year there were 107 women who were victims of marital femicide, 270 people attempted marital femicide. The rest? A figure that is still largely unknown to the general public: 906 women who were victims of abuse from partners or ex-partners committed suicide or attempted to do so, according to this public report
