Following revelations that German police statistics often categorise crimes committed by left-wing radicals as “right-wing,” it has now been revealed that migrants’ abuse of one another is also inexplicably classified as “right-wing.”
According to news outlet Nius.de, if a Syrian insults an Iraqi, and calls him a “dirty Kurd” or physically attacks him in a refugee shelter, police consider it to be a politically motivated “right-wing” crime.
It does not matter that the perpetrator is an asylum seeker himself without any connection to the right-wing extremist scene and without any connections to Germany.
Police have clarified that a total of 7,568 so-called “xenophobic” crimes were committed last year, of which 196 cases (2.6% of all cases) were linked to foreign nationals.
Though this may seem like a small number, Nius.de asks the questions: how many of these crimes were committed by migrants with German passports whose cultural background or socialisation has nothing to do with the classic right-wing extremist scene?
The more naturalisations take place—and the more diverse society becomes—the less the term “German citizenship” says anything about cultural background or political opinions.
As we reported, the newly released crime statistics are in many ways absurd: it was revealed that even when left-wing radicals vandalise a poster of a conservative politician and spray it with graffiti depicting a swastika, it is classified as “right-wing” crime.
