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.
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.
The chief inspector for the Central Police Station in the city of Valencia, Ricardo Ferris, has been fired after publicly stating that “practically all street crime is committed by illegal immigrants.”
