18,000 gender-based violence complaints in six years, police reveal

“The problem of gender-based violence is much bigger than we believed,” Police Chief Themistos Arnaoutis told the parliamentary Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Committee, which convened in an emergency session on Monday morning (July 6) following an attempted femicide in Limassol a week earlier.

Arnaoutis presented figures showing the scale of the problem: from 2021 to 2026, 18,409 complaints of domestic violence were recorded, along with just 3,674 arrests, 2,858 restraining orders...