Cases of domestic and gender-based violence increased in 2025, with incidents becoming more complex and severe, the Association for the Prevention and Handling of Violence in the Family (Spavo) said on Monday.
Presenting the organisation’s annual report, Spavo board president Maria Chaviara Kousiou expressed concern over the escalation of violence in many of the cases handled by the association.
She said that violence had intensified in around half of all
