Spain's crime rate plummets in the last year
Friday, November 7, 2014 @ 8:08 PM
CRIMINAL offences in Spain have fallen this year across the board – particularly violent or aggravated robberies, which have gone down by nearly a fifth.
According to figures released this week by the country's police forces, crime as a whole in the first nine months of 2014 decreased by 4.3%, and theft involving physical assaults by 18.4%.
Statistically, violent crime has historically been very low in Spain, with most murders and cases of attacks causing serious injury being of a domestic nature – perpetrated by partners and ex-partners, and more recently, by children against their parents, including minors has been seen far more often.
But random rape, murder and assaults, even on the street at the dead of night, is rare in most parts of the country and expatriates from elsewhere in Europe often comment on how much safer they feel in Spain walking around in the dark than they did even in daylight in their countries of origin.
Although much less common than in other countries in the EU, crime – even violent – still exists, as it does everywhere in the world, although in Spain it is more likely to involve bag-snatching than knife attacks.
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