Germany: 144 Sexual Offences Against Women Per Day
Without explicitly linking migration and crime, the head of the Federal Police said that “the security situation is tense.”
Without explicitly linking migration and crime, the head of the Federal Police said that “the security situation is tense.”
Crimes committed by “non-Germans” have contributed to violence skyrocketing in the country.
German media point to foreign perpetrators, while British officials pin the rise on increased reporting of offences.
The interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia said the move would promote transparency and counter accusations of concealment.
Over 41% of crime suspects are foreigners while 75% of victims are Germans.
State interior ministers for the first time admit that rising crime is linked to migration.
Migrants from the Maghreb region were seven times more likely than Swiss nationals to be convicted of a crime.
El Salvador may become one of the first success stories in reversing the demographic exodus from the Global South to the Global North.
Foreign nationals, which compose some 13% of the population, were drastically overrepresented in the figures, with records showing that nearly half (47%) of alleged perpetrators did not have a German passport.
France has the highest overall homicide rate in Europe by total number but according to a French academic, the statistics could be even higher due to how they are classified.
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