The Carabinieri have made almost 8 arrests in 2024 for crimes under the Red Code. The force explains this in a note in which it presents the initiatives on the occasion of November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and draws up a balance of the force's activity on the subject.
The priority commitment of the Arma "is to guarantee the safety of women and prevent situations that could degenerate, paying particular attention to the so-called 'indicator crimes', that is, those crimes such as stalking, mistreatment against family members and cohabitants and sexual violence, often precursors of tragic and fatal epilogues for the victims".
In 2023, compared to 2022, the crimes prosecuted by the Carabinieri with reference to the Red Code increased from 54.062 to 55.374, confirming the prevailing percentage of those reported at the Stations. Carabinieri. With reference to the first ten months of 2024, the Carabinieri have prosecuted 46.317 crimes under the Red Code (395 in the province of Bolzano, whose perpetrators have all been reported to the judicial authorities).
On the investigative-repressive level, the institutional counteraction activity conducted by the Arma has been particularly significant. In fact, last year, as regards the Red Code, 7.644 people were arrested compared to 7.111 arrests in 2022. In the first ten months of 2024, there were 7.928 arrests.
“Looking to the future – the note reads – the Arma intends to confirm its contribution in preventing and combating the phenomenon, well aware of the difficulties in intercepting individual criminal episodes in advance, unlike many other types of crime, given that they manifest themselves in their gravity and are reported a long time after the start of the harassing conduct, in a phase that is already critical for the physical integrity and safety of the victims”.
Gender violence "is a serious phenomenon of a cultural and social nature, against which restrictive measures alone are not enough, and instead an evolutionary process of the anthropological component must be considered essential, which goes hand in hand with the rapidly changing and changing nature of society".
Article published on November 25, 2024 - 13:22
