In many European countries, the number of sexual offences is increasing. Police statistic over fresh years show a clear upward trend that is starting to rise expanding public concern. Consequently, Birgit Bessin of AfD, MP for the Bundestag, submitted Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe draft resolution on combating sexual force against women and children in Europe.
Violence against women is expanding in Europe. The paper by Birgit Bessin highlights alarming data from many European countries. In France, in 2024, the number of victims of sexual force increased by about 7 percent compared to the erstwhile year and exceeded 122,000 cases. Long-term data are even more worrying – the number of specified crimes has doubled since 2016. At the same time, the number of rapes and rape attempts increased by 9%.
Similar trends are besides seen in Germany. According to police statistics, the number of rapes, sexual assaults and peculiarly serious sexual crimes has almost doubled in the last decade. At the same time, the number of kid sexual abuse cases and the spread of kid pornography online is increasing dramatically.
The increasing scale of force makes global institutions increasingly serious about women's safety in Europe. The motion for a resolution calls, inter alia, for greater transparency in the publication of sex crime data. According to the authors, only reliable statistic will decently diagnose the problem and make effective countermeasures.
At the same time, the public debate is increasingly asking about the causes of this phenomenon. In many Western European countries, there is simply a link between the emergence in sexual crime and the wave of mass migration. In fresh years millions of people from the alleged "third world" countries have been coming to Europe, mainly from Africa and the mediate East. Most of these regions have polarly different cultural standards regarding the relation between men and women, which experts believe translates into increased social tensions and safety threats.
More and more commentators indicate that ignoring the immigration aspect in the event of an increase in force against women hinders a real diagnosis of the problem. In their view, the effective fight against this phenomenon requires a fair discussion of all factors that can contribute to the emergence in crime.
The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will decide whether the substance will become the subject of a broad global debate. If the proposal is addressed to further work, it will be possible to prepare a study and a resolution that can guide European countries' efforts to combat a increasing wave of sexual violence.
For many Europeans, it is becoming increasingly clear that women's safety should again become 1 of the key themes of public debate. However, the question is whether the European institutions will be prepared to address the real causes of the problem – or whether they will be limited to general declarations. An open message that increased numbers of immigrants from chaotic countries are behind the increase in force should bring real consequences, in the form of sealing borders, improving deportation rules and, of course, mass deportations of blacks/arabs.