Overview

• Attempted or completed femicides in Bavaria have decreased from 189 victims in 2020 to 129 in 2024, according to LKA data.
• In most cases perpetrators are current or former partners, and these murders often follow prolonged abuse, threats or sexual violence.
• A murder trial for a 49-year-old Pommelsbrunn woman, allegedly strangled by her estranged husband, is scheduled to open on June 24 in Nuremberg.
• Bavaria’s justice ministry supports using electronic ankle monitors under state law and is advocating nationwide adoption of GPS-based alarms to alert victims of approaching offenders.
• National crime statistics do not separately record femicides due to lack of a federal definition, limiting accurate tracking of gender-based killings.