Number of homicides within couples in France 2006-2022

In France, the number of women killed by their spouse has fluctuated but overall has decreased since 2006. There were 148 in that year, compared to 118 in 2022. Spikes in the number of deaths of women by their partners were also recorded for the years 2007, 2012, and 2019. The women most affected in 2022 were those between 30 and 39. For men, the number of deaths has generally fluctuated between 21 and 34 in this time, although the lowest figures were recorded in more recent years.
The Ministry of the Interior specifies that violent deaths within a couple fall under three different penal qualifications: murder, which is the fact of voluntarily killing another person; assassination, which is a murder committed with premeditation; and cases where voluntary violence leads to an unintentional death.