Berlin’s clan crime statistics have been released, and they highlight how crime reporting is vastly distorted in Germany, which fails to account for the migration background of suspects. Instead, more and more serious crime is attributed to Germans, which fails to provide a comprehensive picture of crime trends in the country.
There were 851 registered clan crimes in Berlin in 2024, according to the “Clan Crime Situation Report,” which is released by the Senate Department of the Interior and the State Criminal Police Office.
These clan statistics are important for a variety of reasons, but they also offer a window into how many serious crimes are attributed to Germans without any context about the migration background of suspects.
The data shows that there were 616 clan crime suspects. Of these suspects, 324 have German citizenship. Another 108 are “stateless,” 94 are Lebanese, 28 are Turkish, 15 are Syrian, and 47 have multiple nationalities. That totals 292 foreign suspects.
This means that in Berlin, more than half of the clan criminal suspects are listed as Germans in the crime data, totalling 52.6 percent.
What is well known is that all of these clan members have foreign backgrounds, and nearly every single one is from a Middle Eastern country or has a family background from a Middle Eastern country. Taggeschau writes: “The families – as a rule they have Turkish, Lebanese or Arabic roots – usually operate regionally.”
Yet, the German left looks at this same data, and they say, “Look, it is not just foreigners committing crimes, Germans also do it!” Anyone who has even a rudimentary understanding of the data knows the truth, and the clan crime data only helps confirm it.
This reality is that of the clan crimes across Germany, a significant percentage, perhaps even a majority, is committed by German citizens. These are often serious crimes, assaults, murders, robberies, and serious organized crime methods. Each time one of these clan members commits an offense, it goes into the “German” category. The left nods their heads with glee. It fits their narrative that “Hans” and “Georg” are just as much a problem as anyone else.
This does not just apply to clans either, but to a vast array of crime in the country. Germans of course commit crimes as well, but when it comes to certain data points, such as gang rapes, the simple statistics do not tell the whole story. In Germany’s most populous state, half the suspects in gang rapes are foreigners, but when the names of the suspects are revealed, at least half of the suspects with German citizenship have clearly foreign names.
As more and more people with a foreign background are made German citizens in the country, more and more crime suspects will be listed as Germans. The left again will nod their head, as it confirms what they allegedly knew all along.
The left has weaponized citizenship to mislead voters on the role of foreigners and crime. They have been working to naturalize as many foreigners as possible, for various reasons of course, including building up their voting bloc. However, they also know that the problem of foreign crime has been a boon for the AfD. The solution? Make the foreigners German citizens, and all that foreign crime will eventually be greatly reduced. Instead, it will then be the Germans committing the crimes.
The matter is pressing because foreign crime is at a record share at the same time that violent crime reaches record levels. Right now, despite many of the Germans committing crimes having a foreign background, and being counted in the statistics as German, the explosion in crime from foreigners in Germany is still so enormous that it cannot be hidden or explained away.
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has called for criminal statistics to represent the foreign background of suspects, even if they have German citizenship. If they had foreign parents, for example, the AfD advocates that the crime statistics recognize this and report on it. It is not just the AfD though, as many are advocating for such a policy.
Doing so will not only provide a more accurate picture of who is committing crimes in Germany, but it will also give a window into how integration is developing for Germany’s migrant communities over the course of decades.
Neighboring Denmark keeps such statistics, and they paint a sobering picture. The data shows that Danish citizens with a migration background actually have higher rates of criminality than their first-generation migrant parents, who already had vastly higher rates of criminality than Danes with no foreign background.
However, it can be assumed that if this reporting was actually changed in Germany, it would be a disaster for the claims that mass immigration has been a net benefit for Germany. As a result, no government made up of left-wing parties is going to change the law to track this data.
The new data does show some promising signs, with 20 percent fewer crimes tracked than the previous year. However, as BZ notes, this could have something to do with Berlin police being tied up with other operations.
BZ writes: “Due to the European Football Championship and numerous demonstrations related to the Gaza conflict, the police were unable to take action against clan criminals as frequently last year (74 operations) as in the previous year (2023: 126 operations).”
In other words, there might not be fewer clan-related crimes, just fewer police operations targeting clan members for arrest. Only time will tell if clan crime is actually seeing a long-term downward trend.
BZ points to a number of extreme examples, including “a 29-year-old criminal without citizenship… Last year alone, he committed 22 offenses, including several assaults, three threats, three illegal motor vehicle races, three driving without a license, four acts of property damage, and various violations of the Violence Protection Act.”
“Assaults, robberies, drug trafficking, money laundering, fraud, threats with weapons, traffic offenses, theft, and embezzlement – the spectrum of criminal clan activities is broad: The legal violations range from administrative offenses and general crime to gang crime and organized crime (OC),” writes the paper. “The scene now also typically operates shisha bars, buying and selling shops, jewelry businesses, construction businesses, and car rental companies in order to channel criminally obtained proceeds into the legitimate economy – in other words, to launder money.”
The report recorded 246 cases of bodily harm, 3 murder cases, 48 cases of serious bodily harm, 81 cases against personal freedom, 14 illegal motor races, 21 weapons and explosives violations, 112 cases of forgery or fraud, 21 robbery cases, and a variety of other offenses.
Berlin is also only one city in Germany. In states like North Rhine-Westphalia, clan criminals are thriving. “Most recently, 7,000 crimes within a year in North Rhine-Westphalia were attributed to the clan milieu. This is clear from the state government’s current picture of the situation. Seven years after NRW Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) declared war on criminal clans, this is a rather sobering conclusion,” writes Tagesschau.
