The delegate of the Government in La Rioja, Beatriz Arraiz Nalda, has specified that from January to October 2025, a total of 722 complaints of male violence were filed in La Rioja, compared to the 702 complaints that were registered in this same period last year. These data include new complaints of repetition of episodes and others for violation of the measures imposed.

In 2025, in La Rioja there was a case of a fatal victim of gender violence, a 35-year-old woman allegedly murdered by her partner in Haro in April. There were no previous reports of male violence against the alleged aggressor.

The delegate, along with the This morning, Noelia González Pastor, head of the Coordination Unit against Violence against Women, presented the balance sheet with the statistical data corresponding to the complaints filed during the first ten months of this year regarding male violence.

Arraiz Nalda has pointed out that “behind these numbers that we offer today, we must be aware that there are women, in very complicated situations. In the end, the denunciations are only the most visible examples of a persisting social problem such as male violence.”

Of the statistics they have presented, the delegate has highlighted one fact: 46 victims are women under 20 years of age who filed a complaint, 19 of them minors. It is just as important to bear in mind that of the aggressors, 38 of them are also under 20 years of age and 13 are minors.

“Undoubtedly, these 46 victims and 38 aggressors reaffirm the need to focus and insist on education in egalitarian values and against male violence,” he insisted.

For her part, the head of the Coordination Unit against Violence against Women, Noelia González Pastor, has focused on digital violence because “it is a violence suffered by thousands of women, being a new means that abusers have found to harm victims.”

For this reason, González Pastor has pointed out that it is essential to promote responsible and respectful use on the Internet and that “men disassociate themselves from the male violence that is exercised and shared through social networks and other digital environments.”

Digital development, the use of social networks and the rise of Artificial Intelligence are generating new forms of male violence, which is based on the same roles and stereotypes as always, as part of the structure of inequality in which we still live today. “But it is not only important to identify digital violence, but to eliminate the accomplices who share and tolerate it,” he said.

Likewise, the head of the Coordination Unit against Violence against Women has urged to teach our young people to use these digital environments in a respectful and safe way, to identify and report when they find these forms of violence.

“They should point them out, loosen up, and not share these behaviors. They must promote the denunciation of these aggressions and socially isolate those who commit them, and thus, we will be closer to eliminating all types of violence against women,” he concluded.

Data on male violence in La Rioja

As for the data on male violence recorded by the State Security Forces and Corps in the first ten months of this year in La Rioja, 374 of the complaints were filed with the Civil Guard and another 348 in the Superior Police Headquarters.

The cases with active police monitoring today, according to the VioGen2 application, amounted to 927, with 886 different victims and 903 different perpetrators. The 684 cases at low risk, 227 at medium risk and 16 at high risk should be highlighted. No woman encounters an extreme level of risk.

Of the active cases, 439 cases have special relevance and 47 contemplate minors at risk.

Age of the victim and the aggressor

The age group with the most victims is from 31 to 40 years, which adds up to 217 complaints filed (30.1%). It is followed by women aged 21 to 30 years with 207 complaints (28.7%) and 41 to 50 years with 183 complaints (25.3%).

It is significant that 46 women under 20 years of age filed complaints of gender-based violence, 19 of them minors.

With regard to the age of the aggressor, the age range of the aggressors between 31 and 40 years is the highest percentage (28.1% with 202 complaints), followed by aggressors between 41 and 50 years (27.2% with 196 complaints) and between 21 and 30 years (24.4% with 176 complaints).

A total of 38 aggressors are under 20 years old, 13 of them are minors.

Type of relationship

Taking into account the type of victim/aggressor relationship, the most frequent in complaints of violence against women was the affective relationship with 284 cases, followed by the affective relationship with 230 complaints and 131 with conjugal ties.

Type of complaint and injuries

357 of the complaints (49.4%) were for physical abuse: 222 for the first time and 135 for habitual abuse. Of the physical abuse reported by women, 205 came with minor injuries and 3 with serious injuries.

It should be noted that, among women’s complaints of physical abuse, other types of criminal acts are common, such as those known as “against women’s freedom” (15 complaints of threats and coercion), psychological abuse (18) or illegal detention (9).

Request for an Order of Protection and detention of the aggressor

40% (289) of the victims of male violence requested a protection order during this period from January to October.

In addition, 85 per cent (614 attackers) of the accused have been arrested.

On the other hand, in 82.5 per cent of the cases, a speedy trial has been held.

From January to October 2025 there were 197 breakdowns - 88 in the National Police Force and 109 in the Civil Guard.