Crime in Great Britain has fallen by 21 percent, domestic violence and online harassment have increased

Due to the lockdown due to the coronavirus, crime in Great Britain has fallen by 21 percent, but domestic violence and cyberbullying has increased greatly.

In the first press conference related to the coronavirus, the Secretary of the Interior, Priti Patel, announced that fraudsters have taken advantage of this situation to illegally profit over two million euros, deceiving that they will send you the purchased items. which were mainly means of protection against the coronavirus, Telegrafi reports.

During this time when children are staying more than usual on the Internet, pedophiles are using it to harass them in different ways.

"Online child abusers are looking to take advantage of the fact that more and more young people and children are at home and online. Within the last 24 hours, the line dealing with this type of violence received 120 percent more complaints than on a normal day," said Patel.

In the West Midlands alone, 400 cases of domestic violence have been reported in the last two weeks, while similar attacks have occurred in many other families.

Seeing that for this category of people, the home is not the safest space, the Secretary of the Interior has said that she is working with various institutions, organizations and schools, in order to help in this direction. /Telegraph/