Deadly attacks on women rise in France amid growing partner violence
Women in France faced rising deadly violence from current or former partners in 2024, with official data showing more than three femicides or attempted femicides every day.
Issued on: 20/11/2025 - RFI
Women in France faced rising deadly violence from current or former partners in 2024, with official data showing more than three femicides or attempted femicides every day.
Issued on: 20/11/2025 - RFI
A woman holds a placard reading "You never kill for love" at a march against domestic violence in Paris on 23 November 2019. © AP - Thibault Camus
Fresh figures from the Interministerial Mission for the Protection of Women (Miprof) show the number has increased over the past year.
"Every seven hours, a woman is killed, survives an attempted killing, is driven to suicide or attempted suicide by her partner or ex-partner," said an annual letter from the National Observatory on Violence Against Women, which is part of Miprof.
The data shows 107 women were victims of domestic femicide last year, 270 were victims of attempted domestic femicide and 906 women faced harassment by a spouse or ex-spouse that led to suicide or attempted suicide.
Ahead of 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Observatory warned that the harm documented in the figures remains severe.
Fresh figures from the Interministerial Mission for the Protection of Women (Miprof) show the number has increased over the past year.
"Every seven hours, a woman is killed, survives an attempted killing, is driven to suicide or attempted suicide by her partner or ex-partner," said an annual letter from the National Observatory on Violence Against Women, which is part of Miprof.
The data shows 107 women were victims of domestic femicide last year, 270 were victims of attempted domestic femicide and 906 women faced harassment by a spouse or ex-spouse that led to suicide or attempted suicide.
Ahead of 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Observatory warned that the harm documented in the figures remains severe.
Victim of assault 'every 2 minutes'
In total, 1,283 women were victims of direct or indirect femicide or attempted domestic femicide in 2024, compared to 1,196 in 2023. That represents 3.5 women every day.
The observatory said these figures cover couples only and do not show all femicides outside relationships or deaths following violence within couples.
The letter notes that data from the Interior Ministry’s 2023 “experiences and perceptions of security” survey shows a woman is the victim of rape, attempted rape or sexual assault every two minutes.
It also states that every 23 seconds, a woman faces sexual harassment, sexual exhibitionism or unsolicited sexual content.
Miprof Secretary General Roxana Maracineanu said the figures present “an indisputable fact”.
In 2024, girls and women remained “the main targets – if not the almost exclusive targets – of gender-based and sexual violence, at all ages and in all spheres of their personal and social lives”.
She said breaking “this vicious cycle” will require constant training of frontline professionals and that identifying and reporting violence “must become a reflex”.
(with newswires)
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