On 12 May 2017, the Government Council took note of the report for the year 2016 of the Cooperation Committee of Professionals in the field of combating violence.
The report contains statistics on domestic violence as presented by the various bodies represented on the Committee, namely the Public Prosecutor's Office at the District Courts of Luxembourg and Diekirch and the Grand-Ducale Police Service, as well as associations supporting victims of domestic violence.
At the time of the presentation of the report, Lydia Mutsch stressed that the fight against domestic violence must continue and even intensify in view of the stable but still too high figures of police interventions and evictions in 2016. She insisted that the figures officially published in the reports of the Violence Committee may not reflect all domestic violence perpetrated in Luxembourg in view of possible non-reported or non-detected cases.
Nevertheless, during the year 2016, the Grand-Ducal Police carried out 789 interventions. It should be noted that 62.4% of the victims were female and 37.6% male, which reflects the figures of the previous year. The perpetrators were 68.1 % male, similar to the 2015 figure (66.7%).
In 2016, the Public Prosecutor's Office of the District Courts of Luxembourg and Diekirch authorized 256 evictions, of which 210 were male (91.41%). Domestic violence mostly involves marital violence. However, in 2016, the violence of a child against an adult is in relation to the overall number of expulsions, with a slight increase of 24 cases out of 256 expulsions, corresponding to a rate of 10.16% (compared to 15 cases/242 expulsions in 2015). Adult violence against a child decreased from 12 in 2015 to seven in 2016.
Full results of the report are available on the Ministry for Equal Opportunities’ website at http://www.mega.public.lu/fr/index.html.
