Feminicide: Swiss justice minister calls for electronic monitoring

Swiss Justice Minister Beat Jans has called for electronic monitoring and an ankle bracelet warning system for perpetrators of violence against women. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Tests are in progress in several cantons. Since the beginning of the year, 18 women and girls have been killed by men in Switzerland. "No violent crime claims as many victims as violence against women," Jans said in an interview published on Saturday in Schweiz am Wochenende. "Seeing how strongly the figures are rising in our country, it is necessary that we move now." + Swiss taskforce urges urgent measures to tackle femicide Trials on the use of ankle monitors are underway in about ten cantons. Neuchâtel Attorney General Pierre Aubert announced as early as 2023 a pilot project to prevent domestic violence. But at the time he warned against a false sense of security: one cannot place a police officer every 400 metres ready to intervene in the event of an alarm, Aubert told ...