Expert intimate partner violence about reports of victims of family drama: “Factors for such violence are often visible from the first report”

Cennet K. (28) had already filed several reports of intimate partner violence with the police. Nevertheless, she was strangled on Friday evening by her husband Ismael Y. (33), who also killed their son. “She was always sent for a walk by the police,” says the lawyer for the relatives. According to an expert in intimate partner violence, it is urgently time for better consultation and training. Because such extreme violence is caused “by a complex cocktail of factors, which are often already visible at the first report”.

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