Police in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia have been called to asylum seeker shelters almost forty times a day on average—more than 1,000 times every month—this year, according to new figures released by the state’s government.
The data—provided in response to a parliamentary question from the right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party—show that there were 15,825 police deployments to such facilities in 2024.
In the first half of 2025, police were called 6,797 times, averaging more than 1,100 incidents per month.
The police database lists a wide range of offences in these incidents, including drug dealing, theft, extortion, counterfeiting, knife attacks, sexual assaults, weapons offences, and even killings.
Local AfD parliamentarian Markus Wagner said the figures prove the state has “completely lost control.”
While not every migrant behaves this way, the government must no longer deny reality. Anyone who causes trouble in these centres should not be allowed to move freely among our citizens or receive citizenship. We demand deportations for criminal asylum seekers wherever legally possible.
The news comes as recently published data shows that foreigners are much more likely to commit violent crimes than German citizens.
According to German-Swiss forensic psychiatrist Frank Urbaniok, certain cultural backgrounds significantly influence an individual’s propensity to commit violent or sexual crimes—even among those who appear well-integrated.
The Friedrich Merz-led German government is seemingly trying hard to tackle the migration crisis, and while the number of asylum seekers is significantly lower, the overall numbers of migrants arriving in Germany is still high.
The drop was due to several factors: the end of the Syrian civil war, tighter border controls, agreements with third countries, and more pushbacks at Germany’s borders.
But the AfD says the government is misleading the public. It claims that when other migration channels such as EU resettlement, family reunification, and special admission programmes are included, 131,000 migrants arrived in Germany in the first seven months of 2025—almost double the official asylum application total.
Während die CDU sinkende Einwanderungszahlen vorgaukelt, sieht die Realität ganz anders aus: Über Erstanträge, EU-Resettlement, Familiennachzug und weitere Aufnahmeprogramme gelangten allein in den ersten 7 Monaten 131.000 Migranten nach Deutschland. pic.twitter.com/3sPhjozbUS
Zoltán Kottász is a journalist for europeanconservative.com, based in Budapest. He worked for many years as a journalist and as the editor of the foreign desk at the Hungarian daily, Magyar Nemzet. He focuses primarily on European politics.
