The Canary Islands registered 25 complaints per day of sexist violence in 2021

Sexist crime in the Canary Islands is much lower than that registered in the entire national territory

The Canarian courts registered a total of 9,002 complaints of sexist violence in 2021, which represents 24.6 each day. The increase compared to the previous one is 1.09%, well below the 9.35% increase in the entire country

The number of women victims of gender-based violence
increased in 2021 in the Canary Islands by 1.3% -going from 8,855 to 8,971, 116 more- while the complaints for these illegal acts registered in the judicial bodies increased by 0.9% compared to 2020.

If two years ago the courts of
the Islands had recorded 8,926 sexist violence complaintsin 2021 the number was 9,002, 76 moreaccording to data released this Friday by the Observatory against Domestic and Gender Violence of the General Council of the Judiciary and provided by the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands.

These data reflect that the increase in sexist crime in
Canary Islands is much lower than that registered in the entire national territorywhere the number of complaints increased by 9.35%.

According to the report of the governing body of the judges, the Canary Islands recorded last year a rate of
86.6 women victims of gender violence for every 10,000 women, the fourth highest in the State, after the Balearic Islands (103), Murcia (88.9) and the Valencian community (86.6).

The data
represents an increase of 1.1 points with respect to the ratio of the previous year (1.4%), although the comparative evidence that the archipelago dropped one place in the ranking of the communities most affected by sexist violence:
from third in 2020 to fourth in 2021.

The national average was
66 women victims of sexist violence for every 10,000 women, 15.6 points below the Canarian ratio.

The Observatory report offers more data: of the 8,971 women victims of
violence in the Canary Islands, 7,282 were Spanish (12 of them minors) and 1,689 foreigners. During the processing of the process, 971 of the victims accepted the exemption from the obligation to testify against their alleged aggressor, 15.2% less than in the previous year, when 1,145 women had not confirmed the complaints.

During the past year,
the Canarian judicial bodies that judged cases of gender violence handed down 2,522 convictions (11.7% more than in 2020), 226 acquittals (18.9% more than in the previous year), 518 free dismissal orders (-1.7%) and 3,037 provisional dismissal orders of the proceedings (+6.2%).

The percentage of convictions was 91.8% (-0.5%) and the percentage of termination by provisional dismissal was 85.4% (1.2% more than in the previous year).

With regard to persons prosecuted
, last year there were 2,818 who sat on the bench in the Canary Islands for sexist crimes (14.7% more than in 2020), with 91.6% being convicted (0.3% less than in 2020). 2,083 were Spanish citizens and 497 foreigners.

When it comes to protection orders,
the Canarian courts registered 1,876 petitions last year, 15.7% less than in 2020. Of these, the courts inadmissible 26, adopted 1,448 and denied 402.

For the second year, the Observatory study offers data broken down by island.

During the past year, in the different courts of Fuerteventura, 500 complaints of crimes of violence against women were registered; in Gran Canaria, 3,956; in those of Lancelot, 432; in those of El Hierro, 20; in La Gomera, 32; in La Palma 303, and in Tenerife, 3,732.

In the vast majority of cases, crimes of injury and mistreatment were reported.