Catalan police receive 1,910 reports of sexual assault in first six months of year

Catalan police, the Mossos d'Esquadra, received 1,910 reports of sexual assault during the first six months of the year, according to data from Ministry of Home Affairs and Public Safety.

The figure is a little more than half of all reports of sexual assault filed in 2023 (3,686).

More than a quarter of the reports were filed with police in Barcelona.

Baix Empordà-Sant Feliu de Guíxols – on the Costa Brava – is the policing area with the highest incidence of reports per capita: 35.6 per 100,000 inhabitants.

In Catalonia as a whole, for the first six months of the year, the ratio is around 23 reports per 100,000 inhabitants.

Gender-based violence

Meanwhile, the Catalan Health System detected 10,805 cases of gender-based violence against women in 2023, 5.22% more than the previous year (10,240).

November 25 is the UN's International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.