In Germany 62 percent of those who have been subjected to domestic violence are migrants, among them migrants of Russian and Turkish origin, editor-in-chief of the Berlin-based der Freitag newspaper Simone Schmollack said during a meeting with Armenian journalists in Berlin.

According to the German police statistics, 127,500 cases of domestic violence were registered in 2015 and 133,000 last year. Eighty percent of the victims are women, and 20 percent are men. Meanwhile, 89 percent of those who committed violence were men.

Simone Schmollack said the issue of domestic violence was silenced in the past, but now it has more media coverage. Violence may also apply to men, but women are more involved, the newspaper’s editor said.

Talking about the nature of violence against women, Schmollack says that there is a myth in the German society as if a woman is guilty of everything: her behavior, the clothes she is wearing are provoking violence.

“Prejudices are deeply rooted in the society,” she said.

Editor of the German newspaper wrote a book about domestic violence and recorded that immigrant women more often become a victim.

Nevertheless, according to German experts, violence is not linked to social conditions, finances, education. There are cases when act of violence was registered in a family of a professor.

“It's always connected with the desire to rule, there is no equality in such relationships,” she added.

Women's Council Berlin chairperson Isabel Merculen notes that 80 percent of those detained for domestic violence in Berlin are men. They may face a fine or an imprisonment for up to one year.

According to German lawyer Anna Katrina Wolfe, there are calls in the society to toughen the punishment. A particularly difficult problem is the accuracy of the evidence. Both the perpetrator and the victim are called to the court so that the judge could listen to their opinions.

Asked by the Armenian News-NEWS.am correspondent, whether the evidence could be falsified, the lawyer replied that the evidence should be recorded to keep the information in order to appeal to the court.

Tempelhof-Kreuzberg Regional Court is the largest institution in Germany to investigate family relationships. About 20,000 cases are examined in this court yearly. Judge Ulrich Nordhoff emphasized that the prospect of becoming a temporary homeless is diminishing domestic violence.

“The trial usually lasts three weeks, in emergency cases it can be immediately decided if a woman's life is in danger,” he added.

A judge in family affairs cannot make a judgment on criminal cases.

According to the judge, huge responsibility falls on the police, there is an authorized officer in every department who is undergoing a special training.

In practice, the deported men are sheltered by their friends, and in many cases women welcomes her partner back.