German 2023 Crime Data: More Crime, More Violence, More Foreign Perpetrators
State interior ministers for the first time admit that rising crime is linked to migration.
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.
If figures recorded and published by the state criminal police offices
in Germany’s 16 federal states are taken into account, the total number of knife attacks across the entire country exceeded 21,000 in 2022.
Devon and Cornwall Police had already received official criticism about “inadequate” record keeping.
While the number of reported rapes in North Rhine-Westphalia—Germany’s most populous city—increased 25% in 2022 compared to the previous year, the number of rapes involving more than one perpetrator jumped by 43%.
Peadar Toibín of the Aontú party was one of the few Irish parliamentarians who, in his reaction to the Garda’s unsettling figures, criticized the governing coalition for failing to protect society’s women.
Figures offer a stark contrast to the tough rhetoric espoused every election time by the governing Conservative Party.
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