50% of Women Murdered in Spain This Year Killed by Migrants
3rd April 2025
Half of all women murdered in Spain so far in 2025 were killed by foreigners, even though foreigners make up just 13.4% of the country’s population. This figure is alarming, especially given that the proportion of foreign-born perpetrators has tripled since data started being recorded in 2003.
This trend raises serious questions about the effectiveness of the migration and integration policies of successive governments over the past few decades. Of particular concern is the high rate of femicides committed by individuals from Morocco, who are statistically almost six times more likely to commit such crimes than Spaniards. The Romanian community also shows a troubling pattern, with a rate 3.4 times higher than the national average relative to its population size..
Moreover, the high concentration of these crimes in specific regions is also worrying. Andalusia and Catalonia stand out in particular, regions with a significant increase in their foreign population in recent years. Andalusia has had the highest absolute number of murders of women since 2003, closely followed by Catalonia and the Valencia region. A particularly alarming fact is that foreign perpetrators in the Madrid region now outnumber Spaniards.