Euros 2024: Domestic violence increases during major football tournaments, according to new research

Domestic violence during the Euros increases significantly, according to domestic abuse charities.

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00:00I think it's really important to say that obviously football does not cause domestic

00:06abuse and alcohol does not cause domestic abuse, but where there is already abuse and

00:11coercive and controlling and aggressive behaviours within a relationship and within a family,

00:17we know that this becomes more frequent and more severe during or after the big games.

00:24No More Injury Time is a campaign created by multiple charities including Solace and

00:29the National Centre for Domestic Violence, wherein an alternative England kit has been

00:34created to symbolise the phrase that, quote, when we lose, she loses more. Solace charity's

00:39CEO, Nahar Choudhury, said women experience domestic abuse all year round, but with heightened

00:45tensions and disappointments, many abusers will take out their frustrations on their

00:50partner. If you're concerned about somebody you know

00:53about a loved one, how do you best support them? What do you do? And that can be really

00:59challenging and often it's family and friends who are the person that somebody might go

01:03to first and might talk to. We want to raise awareness with health professionals. Often

01:10it might be a GP somebody talks to. And we want to raise awareness as well with men out

01:16there. There's some really good men who might just be really worried about their behaviour.

01:20There's lots of pressures. We want to provide a really unjudgmental service, but we want

01:25men to get in touch if they feel, you know what, I might be behaving in a way that isn't

01:30good for my family, isn't good for my partner, and certainly is not good for my children,

01:35but I don't know how to stop it. We can provide that support, advice, guidance, judgment,

01:41and really look at behaviour change with men as well. So I think it has to be a really

01:46holistic look at the whole family, look at the wider community and look at our political

01:51and social structures to try and change this.