In 2024, nearly half of all defendants convicted of robbery in Germany did not hold German citizenship. According to a federal government response to an AfD inquiry obtained by Junge Freiheit, 704 out of 1,456 convicted robbers were foreign nationals. This overrepresentation is significant, considering that foreigners made up only 14.1% of Germany’s total population that year.
The trend extends across various violent offenses. Specifically, 45.6% of those convicted of aggravated robbery and 47.8% of those found guilty of predatory theft were non-Germans. Furthermore, 44.4% of convictions for robbery resulting in death involved foreign nationals. Other categories, such as extortionate robbery and general extortion, also showed high foreign involvement, both standing at 35.3%.
