Tag: BKA

Germany: Foreign Nationals Vastly Overrepresented in Violent Crime Arrests

Despite making up approximately 12% of the population, foreign nationals—that is to say those living in Germany with foreign passports—last year comprised 37.7% of suspects arrested for violent crimes such as assault, manslaughter, and murder, data from the BKA has revealed.

Germany: 2021 Saw Record Number of Politically-Motivated Crimes 

The considerable uptick observed, according to the security authorities, was not caused by an increase in extreme-Left or extreme-Right activity, but by an increasingly tense social climate which—amid the COVID-19 pandemic—has taken hold of German society.