Judge with stomach ache: Trial about violence against women

Ditte Bjerregaard is director of the organization Center for Violence Prevention. On Wednesday, the Danish government launches a new national action plan for the UN's r ...

Sometimes, the abstract figures of crime statistics become a bitter reality in court. This was the case in a case of "bodily harm" at the Nordhorn District Court, which, as the proceedings progressed, became a classic example of the increase in crimes of "violence against women" recently lamented by the Emsland/Osnabrück Police Department. The accused is a young man from Osnabrück, a German citizen and the father of a child just a few months old…