The measurements of Irene Montero and her Ministry of Equality, that costs us 600 million euros a year to all Spaniards, they have made absolutely no progress. It is what is reflected in the Crime Balance of the Ministry of the Interior, which records that violations shot up 46.5% in 2022 in Andalusia compared to 2019. It also includes strong increases in attempted homicides (+81.4%) and crimes related to injuries and riotous brawl (+39.2%) compared to 2019, the year before the Covid-19 pandemic. In this period, cybercrime also increased by 98.9% in the autonomous community.
The percentage increase of the crimes of penetrative sexual assault experienced in Andalusia between 2019 and 2022 it is lower than the national average, which is estimated at 53.2%, while, on the contrary, the rebound registered in the community in regards to crimes related to injuries and tumultuous brawl it was 7.4 points higher than the increase recorded in Spain as a whole, of 31.8%.
According to him Crime Balance of the twelve months of 2022, in Andalusia a total of 379,540 crimes in the year 2022which represents an upward variation of 11.9% compared to 2019, and 20.5% if the comparison is established with 2021.
In this way, crimes increased in Andalusia between 2019 and 2022 more than double, as a percentage, what they did in Spain as a whole, where 2.3 million crimes were recorded, 5.7% more than in 2019 and 18% more than in 2021.
In regards to the crimes against sexual freedom, data from the Ministry of the Interior point to a rise of 22.4% in Andalusia in 2022 in relation to 2019 -going from 2,178 to 2,666-, and 14% if compared to 2021.
Within these crimes against sexual freedom, the Interior statistics distinguish between penetrative sexual assaults -where the aforementioned increase of 46.5% in Andalusia in 2022 compared to 2019, going from 258 to 378- and the “other crimes” of that category, which rebounded in the community by 19.2% last year compared to 2019, 11.2% compared to 2019.
Crimes against sexual freedom
Regarding the set of spain, Interior recognizes that “the trend of strong increase continues” in crimes against sexual freedom, which it places from 2014. Specifically, it is 28%, including here crimes of Title VIII of Book II of the Penal Code.
in the set of spain, Interior records 2,870 violations in 2022, which represents an increase of 53% compared to 2019 (1,873 cases) and 33.9% compared to 2021 (2,143 cases).
The rest of crimes against sexual freedom -excluding violations and crimes associated with cybercrime– They rise 24% in the country as a whole compared to before the pandemic, where mobility restrictions reduced crime.
“This increase must be related, in part, to the active policies to raise awareness and reduce social and personal tolerance towards this type of criminal act, which translates into a greater willingness of victims to denounce,” he says. Interior on sexual crimes, adding that the clarification rate is over 80%.
