Social affairs - Weißer Ring: Women need protection from violence by their partners
The chairman of the White Ring, Patrick Liesching, has called on Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann (FDP) to allow electronic ankle bracelets for violent offenders - based on the Spanish model. "Every day, an (ex-)partner tries to kill a woman; every third day, an (ex-)partner succeeds in killing a woman," writes the head of the aid organization for victims of crime in an incendiary letter to Buschmann, which is available to the German Press Agency. "At the Weißer Ring, however, we are convinced that the German state can protect women better than it currently does."
Contact and proximity bans do not protect threatened women if compliance with the bans is not monitored. In Spain, significantly fewer women have been fatally injured since the introduction of electronic monitoring of the whereabouts of dangerous individuals (ankle bracelets). However, Liesching, who is also head of the public prosecutor's office in Fulda, states that a federal regulation within the framework of the Protection against Violence Act is needed to make this possible in Germany as well.
"My urgent appeal to you is therefore: don't leave women unprotected any longer," writes Liesching, who has been campaigning for the issue for more than two years. The technical requirements for this are in place at the Joint Monitoring Center of the Federal States (GÜL) in Hesse. "The only thing missing is the political will."
The number of victims of intimate partner violence in Germany has actually risen recently, writes Liesching. "What particularly shocks me is that many of these women had turned to the state for help before the crime."
In many cases, courts have also issued contact and proximity bans against the violent men, often in summary proceedings due to the urgency of the situation. "Unfortunately, these bans were and are ignored by the perpetrators thousands of times, and the trend is rising," writes Liesching. "In 2022, there were 6587 violations of violence protection orders registered by the police nationwide, an increase of eleven percent."
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- In light of the rising number of victims of intimate partner violence in Germany, the chairman of the White Ring, Patrick Liesching, has urgently appealed to Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann (FDP) to consider implementing electronic ankle bracelets for violent offenders, drawn from the successful Spanish model.
- According to Liesching, the introduction of electronic monitoring of dangerous individuals' whereabouts through ankle bracelets in Spain has resulted in a significant decrease in fatal incidents involving women.
- The White Ring, an aid organization for crime victims, advocates that the German state can provide better protection for women than it currently does, emphasizing the need for stricter regulations and monitoring mechanisms to enforce contact and proximity bans.
- The German Press Agency reported that an incendiary letter was written by Liesching to Buschmann, highlighting the alarming statistic that every third day, a woman in Germany is fatally injured by her former partner.
- In Mainz, the headquarters of the FDP, the issue of addressing criminality and protecting women has gained increased attention, with Liesching campaigning for this cause for over two years.
- The Rhineland-Palatinate state, where Mainz is located, and other German states must demonstrate political will to implement changes to ensure the safety of women by enforcing contact and proximity bans more effectively and utilizing technology, like electronic ankle bracelets, to monitor offenders.
Source: www.stern.de
