
Why Now? Tories Talking Tough on Crime
Given the Conservative record, promises of stricter sentencing are unconvincing.
Given the Conservative record, promises of stricter sentencing are unconvincing.
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%.
He defended the law as “a good law,” but admits that “an unwanted effect has been caused that neither the Executive Power nor the legislative contemplated, but that we have to solve.”